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Wednesday, 4 July 2007

Beth Ditto reckons Missy Elliott was pressured to diet

Gossip singer thinks music execs wanted a slimmer star

Chubby Beth Ditto claims music bosses forced Missy Elliott to slim down.

Missy– real name Melissa Arnette Elliott - lost just over 5st 5 years ago – saying she shifted the weight for health reasons.

But the Gossip frontwoman, 26 – who’s proud of her fat - reckons the rapper, 36, was put under pressure to diet to ‘be more successful’.

‘It wasn't like she was gonna fall over dead!’ Beth tells the Daily Mirror.

‘But I can understand why it would be so hard success-wise for her to be her size.’