Lauren: "Papers make me look worse" Lauren Goodger thinks newspapers are more "obsessed" with her weight than she is. It comes after a series of unflattering holiday pictures of her turned up online. Lauren said: "I'm not a skinny girl, this is me. But at the end of the day I think they make it look so much worse than it actually is. I don't know why and how. The Only Way Is Essex star was speaking as she launched her naked campaign for animal rights group PETA. The 24-year-old stripped off for the photoshoot and was snapped covered in body paint.