Louise O'Neill

And I think as well, I mean, definitely like, you know, I came of age in the early 2000s and the, you know, which was very much the kind of the time of like the size zero.

And I think while it has been really unsettling as an adult is realising that, you know,

looking back, so many of the brands that I loved, the clothes that I wanted to wear, and the images that I saw as being very aspirational, the way in which the female body was portrayed, let's say, in those ads, was a very particular kind of look.

And what was really unsettling was when the Epstein files were unveiled, or sorry, were revealed, was realising that...

That many of like very powerful people who were behind those images were on the Epstein files.

Like they were pedophiles.

And I suppose to be a young woman, I think coming of age at that time and having this very thin body presented to you as the ideal.

Like the damage that that did to me and I know to like many of like women my age and our perception of ourselves, our body image.

Like I think a lot of us still carry that with us today.

So it's not just famous women like, you know, Chelsea and whatever happened to Madeline Stone.

It's I think it's the trickle down impact of that on every woman who was watching.

Yeah, yeah.

It's, you know, I think these things are really cyclical and I have found it disturbing because I think, you know, as I said, having come of age in the early 2000s and, you know, being, I suppose, victim to that kind of like that ideal of like the size zero, the size double zero.

it's been really alarming, I think, to see the, again, I suppose the re-emergence of these very thin, very frail bodies on red carpets and on social media.

And this isn't to vilify GLP-1s because I do think they have been like

miracle drugs for a lot of people who, you know, really needed that.

And I'm conscious that, you know, I have never lived in a fat body, so I can't speak to that experience.

But I think what does worry me is that when I had an eating disorder, if I had had access to drugs that could have, like, I mean, really medicalized the anorexia for me, I would have taken those in a heartbeat.

So I think it's just about making sure that, you know, that the

I suppose that they're not abused in that way.