Katriona O'Sullivan

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2,100 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 25 Jun

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The Women's Podcast · Katriona O'Sullivan / Oklahoma! · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

It survived trauma.

I had my children.

It is breathing and growing.

And then in the same breath, I can be like, my God, the size of my ass, my lines on my forehead.

I'm still this size.

I'm still failing.

The rolls of fat, whatever, the criticism.

And I...

I think that we live in a world where there are people who benefit from women not liking themselves.

And the cost to some women is worse than others.

The cost to the changing beauty industry is quite harmful for women like me who grew up poor.

who also grew up with trauma like the idea of this destination body and a place that's going you're going to land on physically that's going to be amazing can become pathological and the things that i did to try to reach the i call it the after picture to try and reach the after picture were really harmful not only psychologically were they harmful physically they were harmful but

And I suppose that was, I suppose, the genesis of this book was, I suppose, my hunger to be smaller and the things that I've done to do that.

But then also there's other types of hungers that have driven me.

Like people talk about me in terms as if I am my outcomes.

Professor O'Sullivan, Trinity graduate.

But like nothing has ever given me happiness ever.

in that way like them things the achievements are not the key to happiness for a person like me it's connection it's always been connection that has solved anything that's wrong with me but because of coming from a place where I actually felt like I was nothing and I felt like I'd failed and I had no love I had this pathological hunger to achieve

And that hunger to achieve is actually really a bad thing.

I would actually be rewarded for that in the world.

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