No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.