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

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.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

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 the sort of person who likes to undo everything.

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

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