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

If I were afraid of wrinkles, I'd probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.

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?

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 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.

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