Ateh Jewel on sugar addiction and burning down Vogue House

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The revered beauty writer doesn’t hold back on the grip sugar has had on her life. Having been recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, Ateh reflects on her binge-eating and childhood trauma to understand the magnitude of what some might minimise as a ‘sweet tooth’. She also opens up about her experience of being a Black woman in a white woman’s magazine world. She worked at Vogue House as a beauty writer and considers what it took to survive - not even thrive - in those abundantly privileged towers.

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:14.7	Welcome to this episode of Dirty Motherpucker.
0:17.6	I am your host, Anna Whitehouse, the founder of Motherpucker, and I'm joined by
0:22.2	Polly Hazelwood. I nearly forgot my name, then. Welcome. We have the incredible beauty writer and TV
0:30.1	presenter Atay Jewell. Coming up, she's going to be speaking about sugar addiction. That's one that
0:35.7	rings true to home.
0:38.0	Also going to be talking about papering over the exhausted parental beauty cracks.
0:43.3	And we're talking Burning Down Vogue House.
0:46.8	Oh, yes.
0:47.7	Before we crack on, though, I want to talk self-belief versus self-delusion.
0:53.9	Which one do you have more of?
0:55.8	So, as it stands, I am DJing on the same bill as Craig David and UB40 and McFline.
1:04.3	I'm literally dying.
1:06.0	My skill deficit in that situation is extreme.
1:10.8	It's... As in quite the chasm, isn't it? I can press play.
1:14.1	I mean, I'm seriously worried. I'm seriously worried for anyone that's bought tickets already.
1:19.6	You might want to go and get a hot dog at that point. Because I'm all for people going,
1:24.6	look, back yourself, go for it, babe, you've got this, you know, and all of that.
1:28.1	And a lot of that I've really absorbed.
1:29.9	And I go, yeah, you've got this.
1:31.4	I've got this.
1:32.1	I'm in, I'm on, I'm signing up, I'm doing it.
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