Bumps and Bruni

Sir, I read in your paper that Carla Bruni is very fashionable compared with the other wives of world leaders (“Mrs Cameron bumps into her fashion rival”, June 19). I’m sure she is fashionable, but comparing her with a seven-month pregnant woman and saying that the latter has no fashion sense seems like writing in a gossip magazine. Then, in the same edition, Tanya Byron (Commentary, June 19) writes that teenagers are influenced by gossip magazines, think they are too fat and then get ill.

Your news report says to me that if I were ever to get into politics, at a healthy weight and not particularly fashionable, I would be called dumpy if I were pictured next to a glamorous woman who is a size 2 and has a great wardrobe. If a woman gets into politics she should be judged on how she runs or helps the country, not on what she wears or how thin she is.