Keira Knightley is Fat!

Actress Keira Knightley has begun legal action against a newspaper publisher over suggestions she has lied about having an eating disorder.

The Pirates of the Caribbean actress was pictured in the Daily Mail newspaper on the beach in a bikini alongside her boyfriend, the actor Rupert Friend, with remarks about her weight, in an article about a girl who had died of anorexia reports BBC

Ms Knightley claims the article implies she has been dishonest in denying having any such problems.

In a statement via her lawyers, Ms Knightley said she would also challenge the suggestion that she is responsible and to blame for the tragic death of the teenage girl by setting a bad example.

"I've got a lot of experience with anorexia - my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it, so I know it's not something to be taken lightly and I don't," she said.