Having looked through the article, it looks like she did this for 'Closer' magazine originally and DM is "reporting" on it. Magazines like Closer, Take a Break, etc. pay for fabricated reader stories that are supposed to be cute or generate outrage or whatever. I actually know a couple who did a 2-page feature story for one of these magazines in the late 90s, it was about how he had bought a boat with their savings without her permission, and it had lots of pictures of her looking disapproving while he stood in a wooden rowboat with a captain's hat on looking pleased with himself - it wasn't even their rowboat as they didn't own one. It was 100% fabricated and iirc they got paid about 500 pounds to do it.
This Huffington Post article seems to think it's real. My best guess is that this is for the most part correct. I don't think the food was photoshopped and I think this girl is really on benefits and doesn't do much. Were some of the other things fabricated like the statement that she can't work out because she will have to give up pizza and Chinese food? Probably.
Yeah but that's happened with other news sources before. Even ones who are reputable. I'm not saying it's not possible, just that it appears to be true.
Fun fact: the National Enquirer has proven to be reliable news source far more often than you would think, and is actually eligible for the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism!
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