By Magdalene Dalziel,Samantha Masters
Copyright dailyrecord
Jeremy Clarkson’s daughter Emily grew tearful during her most recent podcast instalment, as she tackled Luisa Zissman’s controversial Instagram statement. Last month, the former BBC host struck back at online bullies who launched vicious attacks about her appearance following her holiday bikini photographs. The Apprentice star exuded self-assurance in a bold monochrome swimsuit, yet unfortunately encountered a torrent of body-shaming abuse below her images. Fighting back against her detractors, Luisa then released a lengthy declaration defending her build and wellness regime, whilst sharing her thoughts on poor lifestyle choices. Her statement featured: “Imagine I went round calling of you biscuit eating McDonald’s loving lazy people fatties”, before clarifying that her physique stemmed from “energetic, health and mostly clean living”. “If you got off your a***s and stopped shoving s**t in your mouths you wouldn’t be as fat and fat wouldn’t be normal,” she proceeded to fume. “Just because the majority of people are overweight does NOT mean it’s healthy.” She continued: “Shocking that when people see a healthy body with a healthy BMI in a healthy weight range they think it’s not normal.” Throughout Emily and Alex Light’s Should I Delete That? podcast, the pair explored their viewpoints on weight loss medication and Serena Williams’ position concerning them. Subsequently, they referred to Luisa’s social media statement, labelling it as “violently mean”, reports the Mirror . Emily, a body positivity influencer, expressed her shock, stating: “Luisa Zissman did those stories which I just thought ‘bl***y hell’. “They were horrible,” Alex chimed in, with Jeremy’s daughter concurring. After Alex read out the BBC star’s comments in their entirety, Emily was moved to tears as she explained why she believes such words could be damaging. She queried: “So what if someone is a bit fat and likes eating biscuits, so what?”. Wiping her tears away, she continued: “Do you know how f*****g hard it is to just be alive, and like be a good mum, and a good person and a good friend, and do all of these things, and then you get talked about, and to, like that, and I just really thought we’d moved on and I thought we lived in a place that was better than this, where we wasn’t so f*****g mean.” She proceeded to vent: “Thinness is not better, like you’re not better than anyone else because you didn’t have a biscuit this morning, like congratulations that you look good in a bikini!”. “What is it they say? If the words you spoke were written on your skin, would you still be beautiful? No! You look like a f*****g monster.” When her co-star enquired if she was alright, she responded: “I’m sad, it’s just really f*****g sad, what I want my kids to grow up being scared of being fat? No! I want them to grow up being scared of being mean. That’s a scary thing.” In a bold finale, she proclaimed: “Be who the f**k you are, eat what you f*****g want, live your life!”. Alex went on to say that while she thinks trolls shouldn’t have attacked Luisa’s body shape, she shouldn’t have “taken aim” at people “living in larger bodies”. “It’s just really mean isn’t it,” Emily chimed in, agreeing with her co-star that it was “violently mean”.