And here we are, the last in the season and out last for a while, I'm sad to say. It's time I focussed on that book I keep talking about, as well as one or two other projects. I'll be back, probably here and there, rather than a full season. And maybe later in 2022, I'll bring season 4. let's see how things unfold. In the meantime, today, we have E…

This weeks guest is the fabulous Lorna Harris: a writer, a charity sector PR and sea swimmer from Whistable. 47 years young, Lorna and I chatted about the impact of grief on our relationship to food, the time someone put their child in fancy dress, as Lorna, and what she affectionately calls, the trifle months. For more from Lorna, give her a follo…

Today’s guest is Sarah Mills, a disabled writer, performer, stand-up, content creator and passionate campaigner around invisible disability. You can see her web series, The Chemo Chat Show featuring comics like Phil Wang and Dara Obriain, here on twitter. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_DXNUSK07QN9nPa6K0aPug We talked about what a colon cancer d…

This week we have Kate Passmore a Cornish coastal walker, sea swimmer and marketing expert who shared with us the moment her body image shifted, the online ‘noise' around body image these days, and perhaps most importantly: Roast Potatoes. To get updates from Kate, please do give her a follow on Instagram @katetocoast Whilst this is all free conten…

This weeks guest is the international best seller, Rowan Coleman. I've long admired Rowan's writing, and it was lovely to get the chance to chat about this subject with her. We talk about the years of being told she was greedy, sweet treats as medicine, and how dieting makes you fatter. I also want to add a trigger warning to this episode. Rowan an…

This week's guest is Clare, a 54 year old bundle of fizzing energy, who shares with us her experience of body image and the menopause, the things she learned from her mum and how she rejected those ideals, and how much she loves people and the power of community, shared through her project, The Community Scarf, which you can see on Instagram. You c…

Woohoo! We’re back! Welcome to Season 3 of How To Breathe So You Don’t Look Fat! We have 6 lovely guests lined up for the new season and kick off with the excellent Sofia Nazar Chadwick, a 54 year old British/Asian Muslim, Mother, Wife and Daughter. In this funny and insightful chat we hear about 'diet day', cultural expectations of body shape and …

And here we are again, at the end of another season, and what an absolute corker of a conversation I have for you. Eden Elgeti shared with me the moment she started to notice other peoples relationships to their bodies, we explored the fact that she had no recollection of things said to her as a child, and yet how her body has now become something …

Today, I’m so grateful to be able to bring you two guests: mother and daughter Mel and Gabbi Osborne. We’ve talked a lot on the podcast about the things we hear from our mothers, and how that has sometimes shaped our feelings about our own body’s. In today’s chat, we explore Mel’s relationship to her body and how hard she worked to not spread that …

Fiona Houston, also known on Instagram as Fat_Black_Pregnant, describes herself as Fat, Black, late 30s mum to a lockdown baby. Her instagram page is all about building a space for women like her. We talked about the responsibility she feels towards other people, because of her race and size, the fear she inherited from health workers during her pr…

Connor Spratt is a 22 year old, living in Edinburgh, working in mental health. I came across his account via the wonder of iWeigh and his ability and strength to talk about what it's like as a young male with an eating disorder, really struck a chord. I've been looking forward to chatting to him about his own experiences, and all that he's learned …

‘At a certain age, a woman must choose between her face and her body!’ Allie's Mum. This week’s guest is Allie Carr. An artist, living in Sheffield, working at the University of Huddersfield. Her PHD is called Viewing Pleasure and Being A Showgirl - How Do I Look? Her work explores the slippery multi-faceted performance of femininity, the contradic…

Todays guest is Beth King, a 28 yr old nurse trainee also known as @Allthings_water on instagram. We talked about teenage diets, the lack of body confidence that impacted on her marriage, and fat shaming in the NHS. If you have any thoughts following today's episode, you can email us here. Or find us on Instagram and Twitter.…

In this week's episode, we talk with Val Reardon, a New Yorker living in Cornwall for 40 years. We talk about the weekly weigh ins from her father, problematic language around weight gain, and taking her 11 year old daughter to Weight Watchers. It's sweaty, searingly honest, and listening back, I really wish I'd asked more about that Kennedy story.…

I'm so chuffed to be able to bring you Season 2 of How To Breathe So You Don't Look Fat! Today's episode we talk with Lizzie Skinner from Beanology, all about the persecution of imperfection, whether we believe in our enoughness, and that time she put pebbles on her nipples. It's funny and sweary, and really lifted my mood when I was having a parti…

Jeanette Bär is our lovely guest for this week, the final episode in Season 1 of How To Breathe So You Don't Look Fat. Where has this last 8 weeks gone, and who has listened to every single episode? In today's chat, we talked about how we talk to ourselves, to hair free or not hair free, and her soft, lovely mum. TW: There is also some chat about J…

Nicola Montfort is The Soprano to the St Ives Mermaid (and her slave photographer.) She is an opera singer and photographer commuting between St Ives and Vienna. She loves the outdoors, all year round open water swimming, along with art history, literature, old school horror and films. We talked about her experience with Anorexia, the things people…

Clare Meardon is a former professional dancer, current pilates teacher and studio owner, and all round decent woman. We talked about her lock down body, how being a dancer shaped her relationship to body and food, and perhaps most crucially, what Lionel Ritchie smells like. Apologies for swears, we've both got gutter mouths! Since talking, she has …

Sarah Kennedy Norquoy is an author, and all round great woman being the first to agree to let this rookie host, chat to her over the airwaves, for a podcast nobody had ever heard of. She was generous and wise and ever so patient, despite my being nervous of saying the wrong thing, or terrified of us getting stuck on a part of conversation that I co…

Sharmila is a woman I've admired for quite some time: strong, powerful, authentic and inspiring. When I started this podcast, I knew she was someone I wanted to talk to in order to get an insight into how she carried herself with such confidence. The truth was more complicated than I anticipated and made me respect her even more. In this week's cha…

This was a lovely chat where you can hear me and Froshie getting to know one another through many shared experiences relating to body image. Not the swimming though, I've never been into competitive swimming! In it, we talk about coping with judgment, eating with strangers, and a night in the theatre when she fell a little bit in love with herself.…

Matt Armstrong is funny and clever. He was also once told he had muffin tops, right before he was due to "date" someone. They went on to NOT "date". His instagram search history isn't all puppies and half the time he doesn't know if he wants to look like the men he sees, or have sex with them. He worries about the messages young people get from soc…

In this, the first ever How To Breathe So You Don't Look Fat, we talk to Laura Evans, also known as the St Ives Mermaid, about learning to accept her body when she started 'washing up' on beaches, what it's like loving another woman with her own complex relationship with body, food and self, and Laura tried her best to get us some sponsorship from …

Anna lets us into a few of the secrets as to why she's spent 35 of her 43 years in a shitty relationship with her body. This is a round up of why she's starting the podcast, and what she hopes to bring to it. A teaser ahead of the first episode being launched mid October.