Jordin Sparks, the 17 year-old winner of this years American Idol, has gotten flack from the National Action Against Obesity about her weight.

MeMe Roth, advocate for NAAO, has been receiving death threats since appearing on FOX’s ‘The Scoop’ with Jeanette Walls. 

Roth stated on the show that Jordin has an amazing “effervescent personality” but, “her extra weight is a reflection of today’s society and a culture where many of our children have compromised health due to unhealthful food choices and inactivity. We have to stop with the ‘baby fat,’ ‘curvy,’ ‘goddess’ euphemisms and own this child health crisis.”

“When I look at Jordin I see diabetes, I see heart disease, I see high cholesterol,” Roth said. “That’s what’s so sad about this — she is not the vision of health — she is the vision of ‘unhealth.’”

Roth insists that her comments were over sensationalized but that she stands by what she said.

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