I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.