The supermodel caused outrage after revealing she tries to live by the motto "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels".
She said in an interview on fashion news website WWD: "There are loads of mottos. There`s, `Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels`. That`s one of them. You try and remember, but it never works."
Similar phrases can be found on pro-anorexia websites such as Starving For Control - which can be found at the web address www.freewebs.com/toxicana/tipsandtricks - which carries the slogan "nothing tastes as good as thin feels".
The 35-year-old British beauty - who has a seven-year-old daughter, Lila Grace - has now been accused of encouraging young people to develop eating disorders.
Dr Anthea Fursland, a psychologist who specialises in treating eating disorders, told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper: "The term is used in anorexia websites to reinforce to themselves and each other to pursue thinness.
"I think it could have quite a large impact having someone so famous saying that. She is just giving credence to a belief that we are trying to move away from. If they`re at the cusp and feeling vulnerable, that might send them back into the pursuit of thinness."
Model Katie Green - who launched the Say No To Size Zero campaign in the UK earlier this year - also blasted Kate`s remarks, warning that websites which encourage eating disorders will "go crazy" over her comments, believing she supports their cause.
She said: "There are 1.1 million eating disorders in the UK alone. Kate Moss`s comments are likely to cause many more.
"If you read any of the pro-anorexia websites they go crazy for quotes like these."
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