Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

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

We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

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 thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

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.