{"id":65840,"date":"2025-10-08T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/65840\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:01:08","slug":"influencer-matt-cameron-claims-hed-never-do-business-with-a-fat-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/65840\/","title":{"rendered":"Influencer Matt Cameron claims he\u2019d \u2018never do business with a fat person\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">Cameron clarified to the Daily Mail his \u201cpragmatic\u201d comments were targeted specifically at obese people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m not classifying anyone who\u2019s a size 16 or 18 as fat, I\u2019m talking about people who are grossly overweight. There\u2019s a big difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">He said the size of a person\u2019s body can reflect their general attitude towards life, not just aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBusiness can be so complicated and full of risk, and my job is to limit as much of that risk as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">Commenters on the video hit back at the peculiar claims, one stating she \u201cwouldn\u2019t go into business with someone who hates themself\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">Another wrote: \u201cI know a lot of skinny people who can\u2019t control themselves as well&#8230; so this doesn\u2019t make sense???\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">In a subsequent Instagram reel, he made it clear his views on the subject extend to his relationship with his partner Felicity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe agreed from day one to hold ourselves to the highest standard physically, mentally, and emotionally. And the second we stop, it\u2019s over,\u201d he wrote on October 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAdmit it or not, life\u2019s about choices and with all of the modern medicines, the abundance of ways to improve your diet and your fitness, if you don\u2019t&#8230; Sorry it\u2019s on you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">The controversy is nothing new for Cameron, who has been vocal about his opinion on the state of Australia since he relocated his family to Bali from Sydney 18 months ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">Much of the 46-year-old\u2019s content centres around his criticism of Australian governmental policies he says \u201cforced\u201d them to leave the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">He told the Daily Mail the move was a no-brainer given how much further his money can go in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt really felt like you do well in Australia, you make a lot of money in Australia, and they will just continue to hit you harder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZvdWdQYcssNemOdDbi\" style=\"display:none\">The family says it maintains three housekeepers, a personal chef, a security guard, a driver and a personal assistant for A$130,000 ($148,600) a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron clarified to the Daily Mail his \u201cpragmatic\u201d comments were targeted specifically at obese people. \u201cI\u2019m not classifying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[53319,6030,1135,138,53314,1550,2562,7794,53315,6309,31442,42,14648,53317,8235,30506,13631,43,1642,4056,53318,53316,1961,2044,40,38,41,39,21539,18216,102],"class_list":["post-65840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-acumen","tag-again","tag-australian","tag-business","tag-cameron","tag-centre","tag-claims","tag-contentious","tag-discourse","tag-do","tag-fat","tag-headlines","tag-hed","tag-indicative","tag-influencer","tag-matt","tag-never","tag-news","tag-online","tag-person","tag-persons","tag-suggesting","tag-this","tag-time","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-views","tag-weight","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}