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

Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.

When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.

I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.