Miss Surrey is overweight. She is also 16, and an overweight 16 year old is likely to put on even more weight as they stop growing. Her weight does not appear to be distributed as muscle, rather it is simply fat. She has a weight problem, a serious one.

The message presented in sections of the UK press is that it is perfectly okay to be like Miss Surrey and that being her weight is no problem. The message that we should be getting across is that overweight, particularly in a person just 16 years old, is a serious health problem. Okay the fashion for stick-thin models is wrong, but so too is this.