Pippa Middleton faces backlash over new 'Sport and Social' column

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ANI Melbourne
Last Updated : Sep 17 2013 | 4:20 PM IST

Pippa Middleton's new column 'Sport and Social', in which she is describing her passion for boxing, was slammed by readers on Twitter.

The 30-year old younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge admitted that she took up the sport because of the "prospect of a more svelte silhouette", saying it helps with "toning up arms, bums and tums, and banishing bingo wings, back fat and booze blubber", the Mirror reported.

The English socialite, turned food writer for 'Waitrose' magazine, columnist at 'The Spectator' and contributing editor at 'Vanity Fair' revealed that she was introduced to the sport by a "fitness fanatic friend", and narrated an incident where she arrived "inappropriately dressed" in "slinky workout attire".

Readers ridiculed her article, which appeared in the Daily Telegraph, with one calling it the "Most cringe-worthy column ever" while another said the column "starts like a bad novel and doesn't get any better".

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First Published: Sep 17 2013 | 4:07 PM IST

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