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Topics: Celebrity, Sex and Relationships
Niamh Shackleton
Topics: Celebrity, Sex and Relationships
David Foster has been criticized for his remarks about his wife in a resurface clip of them on stage together.
Music producer Foster, 74, wed Katharine McPhee, who is 35 years his junior, in 2019.
He split from his last wife, Bella and Gigi Hadid's mom Yolanda, two years prior.
Foster and McPhee first met when he was a guest mentor on season five of American Idol, which McPhee auditioned on. They didn't embark on a romantic relationship until the breakdown of his marriage from Hadid, however.
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McPhee didn't win her season, but she was runner-up to Taylor Hicks.
Now happily married, a video of them on stage together has resurfaced from last year where McPhee was seen reminiscing about the first time she met Foster.
"You may not know but we met 17, almost 18 years ago when I was a little chubby and cheerful contestant on American Idol," she told the crowd.
Foster, who was sat at the piano, then added: "Oh yeah. You were fat."
While the audience laughed at his remarks, people online didn't find it quite as funny.
"This is a really tough watch," one person said.
"The fact that the audience laughed," pointed out another.
A third went on to write: "The chubby/fat comments are ridiculous. Ugh. Lost some respect for them."
Someone else fumed: "Fat??? Wow. And we wonder why society is so screwed up."
Others noted that McPhee has been open about previously having an eating disorder.
In recent years, the singer shared her fears over a relapse while she was pregnant with her and Foster's son, Rennie.
"The biggest challenge for me through the pregnancy was really the body issue stuff just suddenly came up in a way that hadn’t been present in a long time," she previously shared on the Informed Pregnancy Podcast.
"I was really ravenous the first trimester. The food hunger would come on so quickly and in your brain your like 'Is this the eating disorder version of me or is this actually my body?'"
McPhee further shared that her initial eating disorder started when she was middle school.
She recalled: "You start itemizing foods, like you put food in categories like this is bad food, this is good food, this is a good day, this is a bad day. And the restricting turns into an obsession with the food."
UNILAD has contacted reps for Foster and McPhee for comment.
If you have been affected by any of the issues in this article and wish to speak to someone, contact National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD). You can reach them on their free hotline at 1(888)-375-7767, which is open Monday-Friday, 9am-9pm CST.