Batmanghelidjh Dead
Discussion
Morbidly obese woman dies age 61.
A woman we knew well died last night. Her husband is 6ft 5ins and cycles, mountaineers, canoes etc.most days. He eats, needs, lots of calories. She was about 5ft 5 ins and ate the same.
She had been ill for most of the last 10-years.
These stories will become unremarkable..
A woman we knew well died last night. Her husband is 6ft 5ins and cycles, mountaineers, canoes etc.most days. He eats, needs, lots of calories. She was about 5ft 5 ins and ate the same.
She had been ill for most of the last 10-years.
These stories will become unremarkable..
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Some replies in predictably bad taste. Yes, of course she was over-weight but to speculate and make smartarse comments is bad form.
She wasn't just carrying a few extra pounds. Post kids company failure her driver commented she did not like to walk ffs. She might have died of something unrelated but honestly my money is on lifestyle and frankly the UK as a whole needs to look at what we eat etc and the impact it has on the health serviceQuhet said:
Was Kids Club not cleared of mismanagement and the worst of the allegations? A lot of bad taste comments here
As is very often the case the situation was a bit murky. Supporters will cling to the High Court ruling that the charity, its management and its trustees were “cleared” of “any wrongdoing” while others may choose to hold aloft the later Charity Commission report on its failings and others would go even further and claim there’s no smoke without fire and so on.Anecdote schmanecdote alert. My wife works in the sector and it was widely known the corporate governance at the charity was a mess. Her then employer would on occasion consider joint submissions for contracts and would shy away.
My wife, a Guardian reading, metropolitan, do gooding lefty, always minded towards supporting persons such as Ms Batmanghelidjh and causes such as Kids Company was a little surprised at how softly the senior management and particularly its trustees were treated when the house of cards inevitably fell in.
Her view, an inconsequential single view though it is, was that the charismatic but flawed woman was simply not the figure to run an organisation the size Kids Company became.
Don Roque said:
She will be remembered for her colourful outfits and her links to that dodgy charity.
It is a bit of a shocker, think sometimes its best to keep some thoughts in your head, its not a massive leap of faith to suggest weight can have an effect on mortality, but may not be either.She definitely had her own style and was very recognisable and colourful, always sort of reminded me of when the kids upended the dressing up box in pre school.
rdjohn said:
A woman we knew well died last night. Her husband is 6ft 5ins and cycles, mountaineers, canoes etc.most days. He eats, needs, lots of calories. She was about 5ft 5 ins and ate the same.
She had been ill for most of the last 10-years.
These stories will become unremarkable..
????She had been ill for most of the last 10-years.
These stories will become unremarkable..
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Some replies in predictably bad taste. Yes, of course she was over-weight but to speculate and make smartarse comments is bad form.
She did more for kids than most of us will ever achieve.Shame to see her moving on, I hope someone picks up the baton of her work.
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