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Kate Fischer scoffs at the fat-shaming reports in the tabloids this week.

You would remember her as Kate Fischer, the brunette supermodel who graced countless campaigns and magazine covers during the ’90s.

But that’s not who she is anymore.

The 42-year-old is now Tziporah Malkah, an aged-care worker living a private life in Melbourne — details of which were recently splashed across the tabloid media, along with voyeuristic photographs of her changed body.

One headline even read: “You’ll never guess what James Packer’s ex-fiancee Kate Fischer looks like now: She’s unrecognisable!

Unsurprisingly, Tziporah has had enough.

 

“‘Kate got fat! Kate got fat! Kate got fat!’ is older news than Moses,” she wrote on a newly established Facebook page.

“And anyway that’s not my legal name anymore.”

In an attempt to correct the “many lies and one-sided nasty things” again being written about her in the press, Tziporah earlier posted a short Wikipedia-style autobiography to the page.

It covered her rise to fame as model, actress and television presenter, to her decision to retire after 21 years in show business “to focus on other things”.

“It was around this time she found out that although the family had not practiced [sic] Judaism for many years, she was technically Jewish (did NOT convert- no need),” she wrote.

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Tziporah shot to fame after winning a Dolly covergirl competition.

"Since Tziporah is a traditional name on her matrilineal line, passed down from Grandmother to first born Granddaughter, Katherine/Kate/Katie was no longer.

"Legal name changes took place. And Tziporah busied herself with getting to know her culture, race and religion."

Tziporah moved to the US in 1999 to escape the spotlight following her high-profile split from Australian billionaire fiance James Packer.

 

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And she has no intention of stepping back into it again.

"I'm no longer desirous of being a public figure ... I do not grant interviews and have no interest in being in the public eye," she wrote on the Facebook page.

"I work in the health care industry and very much enjoy helping others. I am content in most ways and appreciate my life being a private one now."

 

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