Lily Allen has claimed that she felt exploited and "set up" by the media to use her in the weight debate when her fashion range was launched at the same time as that of supermodel Kate Moss.

 

The 'Smile' singer designed a clothing collection at high street store New Look within days of Moss's highly publicised Topshop collection being launched.

 

The media then used the competition of the two clothing ranges to highlight the issues surrounding size zero celebrities, which Allen claimed made her "feel fat" and she is now insecure about her body.

 

She told Cosmopolitan magazine: "I felt I'd been set up and it shook me. All of the body image issues I struggle with on a daily basis came up.

 

"I'm a size 10 with a size eight top and made to feel fat next to someone like Kate Moss. What makes me angry is I let it happen.

 

"I'm not super-skinny, so in 'Fameland' I'm fat Lily Allen. It's now my ambition to get all those skinny-arsed bitches off the covers of magazines and get normal people on them."

go lily. go lily, go lily