Dr. Katriona O'Sullivan

Yeah.

So Hungry is a biography of my body.

When I wrote Poor, I thought, I'm done now.

I've said a lot, and a lot of people have read Poor.

A lot of people haven't read Poor, actually, just to say that, even though a lot of people know it.

I said I'd never, I wouldn't do it again.

But sometimes stories and books are just in people, and in my case...

I reflect a lot on my social media about how I feel about my body, particularly as a woman in the world and how I love and hate it at the same time.

And I began to explore the idea of like telling the story of my body and all of the things that influenced how I feel about my body.

And that's, I suppose, the hungry element of it.

We talk about hunger, we talk about food hunger, but the desire to be smaller.

But then I kind of used a play on words and I started to look at hunger for...

connection and love and the things that are done to try to achieve them and then hunger for achievement.

A lot of people ask me, how are you a professor?

How have you been so successful?

And I suppose I've talked about my pathological drives for things and how they sometimes were neurotic and then how I've learned, I suppose, to take a moment and try to be more at ease with myself.

Yeah, I think so.

I think...

I am an academic and I am an intellect.

So poor was me using my... I look at poor and I think it's more of a social document than a memoir.