Episode 229: Tranorexia (with Hadley Freeman)

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Sunday Times columnist Hadley Freeman to discuss her departure from The Guardian; her controversial interviews with Judy Blume, Margaret Atwood, and Woody Allen; the parallels between anorexia and gender dysphoria; and a young eating disorder influencer.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Blochen reported. I'm Katie Herzog and today while Jesse is wandering around Springfield Ohio with a case full of
0:14.5	tuna I am joined by Hadley Freeman. Hadley is a columnist at the Sunday Times
0:19.6	and the author most recently of the book Good Girls, A Story and Study of Anorexia.
0:25.0	Hadley, welcome to Block and Reported.
0:27.0	Hi Katie, thanks for having me.
0:28.0	It's so good to have you here. You know, I was wondering, this is my first time hearing your voice,
0:32.0	I was wondering if you were going to have an American accent or a British accent
0:35.4	are you code switching?
0:36.8	Are you normally a bit about limier?
0:38.7	Sadly I just always sound totally in between I think it really goes back and forth so I just sound like a
0:44.7	foreigner in both countries I'm excited to be here because I've been listening to the
0:49.2	podcast since its very first episode and now I can officially describe myself as friend of the pond.
0:55.2	You have heard us get worse over time.
0:58.3	Well, thank you so much for joining us.
1:00.1	I'm trying to get all of the British turfs before Jesse Jesse can claim them and we have a lot to talk about today.
1:05.3	In the second half of the show we're going to discuss eating disorders and an eight-year-old eating disorder influencer.
1:11.8	What's there?
1:13.0	It will be maybe not fun, but it will be interesting.
1:16.0	But before we get to that, I want to start with this question.
1:18.7	So you are an American by birth, but you have lived most of your life in the UK.
1:23.0	What is the worst part of England compared to the US?
1:26.0	There's only one real worst part and that is no Triscuit crackers here.
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