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

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.

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?

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

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

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.