Katriona O'Sullivan
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2,100 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 25 Jun
Katriona O'Sullivan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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flying to Turkey, getting gastric bands, getting gastric sleeves, I got a gastric band, like engaging in really kind of scary behaviours in order to try to shrink themselves.
And sometimes when you have a story in you, you just need to tell it.
And so hungry kind of emerged from this observation that where I come from in terms of my social class, the trauma of experience in my childhood, they all affected how I felt about my body.
And also the world in which I live in, which tells women they should be a certain shape or size.
They should ask for something.
They shouldn't ask for things.
It really got me thinking about maybe I could use my story to talk about something else.
Poor is about poverty.
And this is about what we do to people, to women and their bodies and how that drive to succeed, to love and to be smaller can become pathological.
And that's why the word hungry is used.
Exactly.
So...
The book is themed around the things that influenced the way I felt about my body, but also about how hungry I was as a person, hungry for food particularly.
And so it starts when I was really small.
Now it starts in this, like, I loved my body when I was a small kid and I really felt proud of it.
I was great at sport and I didn't even know I was a girl.
But I lived in a home where there was severe neglect.
There was heroin addiction.
We had no food.
And I start my book talking about actually what hunger did to me, physical hunger.
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