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David Foster Slammed for Saying Wife Katharine McPhee Was ‘Fat’ on ‘American Idol’ in Viral Resurfaced Video
David Foster is getting slammed for saying wife Katharine McPhee was 'fat' when she appeared on American Idol in 2006, as seen in a resurfaced viral video.
She told the audience, “You may not know we met 17, almost 18 years ago when I was a little chubby and cheerful contestant on American Idol,” as David, 74, sat across from her behind a piano. “When I made it onto American Idol, I knew that food – my eating disorder – was the one thing really holding me back,” she told People in 2006 after appearing on the talent competition, where she was the runner up to winner Taylor Hicks. “Growing up in Los Angeles and spending all those years in dance class, I’d been conscious of body image at a young age, and I went through phases of exercising compulsively and starving myself.
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