I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

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

In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?

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

In general, the Western body has become a global brand.

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

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.