Sian Pattenden
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Podcast Appearances
I mean, what's almost refreshing is the word wellness isn't used in it at all because wellness didn't exist.
This whole cycle, the capitalist idea of what health is and what women's bodies should be hasn't even been invented yet.
Social media hasn't been invented.
This is not an influencer book.
You have watched this movie, haven't you?
I have watched this movie.
I watched this movie with Christina Ricci in it, who plays her very well because she's as bug-eyed as Elisabeth Wetzel herself.
But the movie doesn't know really what to do.
It doesn't know whether to go heavy or to go soft.
And it just looks like someone's sort of complaining that they've had a bad day.
And the mum's on the phone not being very nice to them.
It just doesn't work.
There's a lot of boy stuff in it, which you don't really get so much of that in the book.
They're trying to turn it into romance as well.
It's not very engaging, I would say.
They had a go, but I mean, they should have gone dark and it just doesn't go dark enough.
Of course.
You're still not allowed.
You're still not allowed in.
No, you're not a proper writer, addict, woman or whatever I've decided on, you know, this morning.