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My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
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.
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.
My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.
My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.
Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
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.
Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.
Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.
There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.
There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.
When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.
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