Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
Arabella WeirWith a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
Arabella WeirDoes everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?
Arabella WeirIf, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.
Arabella Weir