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

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

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

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

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.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

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