Katriona O'Sullivan

Like, my body is driven to be bigger.

And whether that's because of where I come from, obesity is more common in people who grew up in poverty.

I don't know.

But I do know this, that...

The world which taught me that a certain shape or size was the solution harmed me more so than I think it harmed some other women who might have had more than I did.

No, you could bring your 11-year-old daughter to Slimming World with you.

And that is still happening.

What age were you when you got the gastric band?

It was seven years ago.

So I was a grown woman.

And the thing is, the book chronicles... So why did you do that?

Because the destination, the idea of a destination was so big to me.

To be honest, when I was 21, I was... This book is about hunger for connection.

It's about hunger for achievement.

And it's about hunger to feel okay in my body or to be smaller.

And I went to therapy and I really... When I went to therapy, the two things that I got from therapy first time around was the ability to...

find a good man and a decent relationship.

And the other thing that I got was this, was my ability to go to college, to get a job.

Like that hunger was kind of entrained.

So my life was getting better, but I never really spoke about what happened to me when I was a child in that original therapy.