Many women will recognise the pressure surrounding body weight. You’re welcome to be intelligent and successful, but those qualities don’t count in your favour unless you are also slim. In my professional life I’ve seen how much less we listen to – and respect – someone who is overweight, especially if that person is a woman.
Anna Törner: Time for new body ideals?
Why are perfectly healthy people turning to high-tech medicines to achieve outdated beauty ideals? Anna Törner asks in her latest column.
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