Elaine Crowley

And because of that, we see this extreme thinness and it's not an aesthetic.

We have people both in Hollywood and here in Ireland who are malnourished.

They're unwell and they're being perceived as this is the way you should look now on TV, which is ridiculous.

Yes, I still get mocked left, right and centre for being a bigger woman on television for want of a better phrase.

But, you know, the camera does add whatever you might say, that's 10 or 20 pounds.

I have people still coming up to me, oh my God,

You look so much better in real life or you look thinner in real life than you do on TV and blah, blah, blah.

Do you know what?

That's par for the course.

I'm older now.

I suppose I went through the horrors through my 20s and even some of my early 30s with that mentally as well as physically starving myself.

and you name it, and not leaving the house, not going to events because I felt I was too fat.

I'm over that now at this stage, thankfully, because I'm older and hopefully wiser.

But what we're looking at now is terrifying because it's coming back, it's back with a bang, and nobody is pointing it out.

Sorry, what did you say?

What do you mean by that?

It's hard to...

to explain, I suppose, if... I don't mean to offend you, but to a man, the scrutiny that you come under as a woman, especially in the public eye.

And I used to get it thrown to me.

I was a newsreader back then, going, oh, you should expect to be commented on if you're on television.