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Katriona O'Sullivan

👤 Speaker
1416 total appearances

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

And that I think that we teach that to all women and all girls.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

But then at 16, I went to Weight Watchers and Slimming World or the Slimming... I don't want to get sued by any Slimming Club, but I went to my first ever Slimming Club.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

And I'm a girl who has no self-esteem, Brendan.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

I really don't like myself.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

I'm 16 years of age living in a hostel and I'm surrounded by these...

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

who are clapping me for a disordered eating.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

Sorry if I said our ones, but like I walked into this club and there's this full blown image of the leader when she used to be fat.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

And the message was, if you get to this destination, you will be happy.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

And it taught me to commodify food, Brendan.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

It didn't teach me about health.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

It didn't teach me about nutrition.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

It taught me to count everything.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

It taught me to count food, but it also taught me to count exercise.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

So prior to that, I loved running, jumping, shot put, all of these things.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

And now it's like...

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

Everything that you move for is to reduce the size of your body.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

Yeah, so my Topshop jeans, anybody who remembers Topshop, I had a size 12 Topshop jeans, which is quite small actually because Topshop are quite a small brand.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

And I kept them for years and I would actually pull them out of the wardrobe, slide myself up into them, try my best.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

It was like my measure of success if I fit into these jeans.

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Brendan O'Connor
Katriona O’Sullivan: “I felt like a fat bride, and I still hate the wedding photos”

And the only time that I actually fitted in them when I was disordered eating to the extreme.

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