David Foster Blasted Over 'Hurtful' Comment About Wife Katharine McPhee

Comments David Foster made about his wife Katharine McPhee‘s appearance on American Idol are causing quite a stir among fans.

A video from the David Foster And Friends concert at The Theatre at Solaire in March 2023 that has since re-surfaced caught the moment Foster, 74, and McPhee, 40, discussed the first time they met. 

“You may not know we met 17, almost 18 years ago when I was a little chubby and cheerful contestant on ‘American Idol,'” McPhee said during the joint performance. 

“Oh, yeah—you were fat,” Foster very bluntly blurted out about their circa 2006 run-in. 

“I was a little chubby, OK?” McPhee pushed back. “I was just young.”

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Despite the Season 5 contestant’s attempt to play off her husband’s “rude” remark, fans were not having it–slamming the music producer when the clip was initially posted and again when it resurfaced this year.

“WOW this is not endearing, cute or sweet…it’s sad,” one TikTok user wrote.

Another said, “That was rude fat???” 

“Wow his audacity to call her fat when she was (and still is) absolutely gorgeous and he looks… the way he does,” a third quipped, adding, “And to think she had an [eating disorder] back then.”

McPhee has been quite vocal about her struggle with disordered eating, revealing back in 2021 that she feared a relapse while pregnant with the couple’s first and only child.

“Feeling like there was a relapse after getting pregnant was really shocking and upsetting and concerning for me, because I was suddenly so obsessed with food, starting from this first trimester, and I had such a distortion of the way that I looked,” she said on an episode of Dr. Berlin’s Informed Pregnancy Podcast.

“It’s something that I think if you have issues with food it’s always something that there are phases when it comes back into your life and it haunts you and then you get a hold of it again,” she added at the time.

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