Kelly Osbourne: A Troubling Past Haunts Her Future

Poor looked frighteningly frail alongside her mother Sharon at the , where they accepted the posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award for her dad Ozzy.

Anyone who saw the Brits should be worried about Kelly’s wellbeing. It is surely not healthy for a 41-year-old mother of one to look so fragile.

With sunken cheeks, a jawline so sharp you could cut yourself on it, collar bones exposed, the once vivacious multi-millionaire social media star mumbled almost inaudibly: ‘Thank you for loving my father as much as we do.’

And yet in the midst of her evident difficulties, the trolls and ‘fans’ have been out skinny-shaming her.

So much so that she felt she had to address their online comments after her appearance with Mum at the BRITs.

‘There is a special kind of cruelty in harming someone who is clearly going through something,’ she wrote on .

‘Kicking me while I’m down, doubting my pain, spreading my struggles as gossip, and turning your back when I need support and love most.’

There is no doubt in my mind about her pain. I am genuinely concerned for her and feel she deserves all our support. She is clearly still struggling after losing her beloved father in July following his epic final Black Sabbath concert, and having to grieve him in the full glare of public attention.

Kelly has said that many of the thousands of comments posted about her appearance at the BRITs were ‘cruel and dehumanising’, and that they appeared when she was going through ‘the hardest time of my life’.

Some of the comments made about her are unprintable. Others are just vile – like the one from ‘Michael’ who wrote: ‘She is 100 per cent doing this for attention. She’s getting the most press of her career and she’s loving it. She’s always been messed up so this is nothing new.’

‘Orisis’ suggested she should ‘Lay off the jabs’, a reference to the use of slimming injections which Kelly has consistently denied, insisting instead that her dramatic weight loss was down to gastric sleeve surgery in 2018, as well as lifestyle and diet changes.

She may believe her frighteningly slender look is beautiful, but I fear that the way she is punishing her body is in fact a primordial scream for help.

The last thing Kelly wants right now is this barrage of embittered and critical comments. What she deserves is oceans of love and support.

Yes, it is undeniable that Kelly is a shadow of her former self – a rambunctious, bratty, cheeky adorably curvy 17-year-old who first won our hearts appearing on the then groundbreaking TV series The Osbournes, which ran from 2002 to 2005 for 52 episodes.

It is true too, that she herself has in the past been shockingly bitchy about the appearances of other celebrities – not least when she appeared as a ‘style expert’ from 2010 on Joan Rivers’ hit TV show ‘Fashion Police’ in the US.