Fat cow, fat chance - Jenni Murray

'A powerful, poignant tale of dieting and despair.' The Times

'A moving, brutally honest memoir about what it feels like to be fat-shamed.' Mail on Sunday
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At
sixty-four, Jenni Murray's weight had become a disability. She avoided
the scales, she wore a uniform of baggy black clothes, refused to make
connections between her weight and health issues and told herself that
she was fat and happy. She was certainly fat. But the happy part was an
Oscar-worthy performance. In private she lived with a growing sense of
fear and misery that her weight would probably kill her before she made
it to seventy.

Interwoven with the science, social history and psychology of weight management, Fat Cow, Fat Chance
is a refreshingly honest account of what it's like to be fat when
society dictates that skinny is the norm. It asks why we overeat and
why, when the weight is finally lost through dieting, do we simply pile
the pounds back on again? How do we help young people become comfortable
with the way they look? What are the consequences of the obesity
epidemic for an already overstretched NHS? And, whilst fat shaming is so
often called out, why is it that shouting 'fat cow' at a woman in the
street hasn't been included in the list of hate crimes?

Fusing politics, science and personal pain, this is a powerful exploration of our battle with obesity.
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'Agony and confusion, humour and hope. A beautiful book.' Susie Orbach, author of Fat is a Feminist Issue

'A perceptive look at health and happiness.' Sunday Express