Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

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

I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

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

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

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.

I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.