My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it. Arabella Weir Read Quote
As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn’t welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so. Arabella Weir Read Quote
If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks – that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse – then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes. Arabella Weir Read Quote
Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat. Arabella Weir Read Quote
I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing – albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers’ sanity – and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is. Arabella Weir Read Quote
Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing – once you’ve achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim? Arabella Weir Read Quote
I don’t subscribe to the ‘Doctor Who’ magazine and we’ve only got the normal amount of ‘Doctor Who’ fridge magnets. Arabella Weir Read Quote
In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image – a new year. Arabella Weir Read Quote
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don’t have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don’t have children who are overweight. Arabella Weir Read Quote
