Alex Light on heroin chic, fat shaming and anorexia

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Who else remembers Special K suggesting you’ll get skinny by eating a couple of bowls a day? What is diet culture? And why did we so easily buy into it? Anna and Polly sit down with journalist and author Alex Light to shine a light on eating disorders and the grimness of an industry that told us ‘nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’. The trio talk body shaming, body dysmorphia and how to raise the next generation of girls to love themselves. Original music by Matt J Brown at WeAreOK.com

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:15.0	Welcome to Dirty Motherpucker.
0:18.7	I'm Anna Whitehouse, the founder of Motherpucker,
0:22.3	and I'm joined by her over there, Polly Hazard. Hello, my lovelies. That sounds like a normal.
0:31.0	Hi, guys. Hi, hi. We're in the zone. Can I just get something off my chest really quickly?
0:36.3	I would love that. Yes, please.
0:38.0	I was just behind a group of people, you know, at the tube barriers, and they were gathering with
0:45.2	their wheelie bags. And there was such rage inside me that, you know, like the doodlers.
0:53.2	They were dawdling. Right.
0:54.4	They were dawdling.
0:54.9	I don't have time for dawdling.
0:56.0	Yes, I can imagine, actually.
0:57.9	I found myself sort of in a huffing, touching fit of rage.
1:01.8	Behind these really quite innocent people who were just trying to work out where they needed to go.
1:05.6	And I'm like, people, woman coming through, mother coming through, I've got shit to do.
1:09.7	And I had this just extreme rage.
1:12.9	I just was like, get out the way. I haven't got time for dawdlers.
1:16.0	You're a bit like that with me, like this morning when we were trying to pack up to go and you were like,
1:19.9	is there any way you can get those shoe bags into your rest of your lodges?
1:25.0	Can you just decanting me anxiety? And get it into one bag.
1:28.2	Yeah.
1:28.5	There was a point this morning where Polly was trying to give me some life coaching advice.
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