Breaking Up with Diet Culture with Laura Adlington
Anna's guest on the pod this week is baker turned body image campaigner Laura Adlington.
Anna's guest this week, Laura Adlington, shot to fame as a finalist on the 2020 series of the Great British Bake Off. In the midst of the pandemic, she brought some light in the darkness of that horrible year with her sharp wit, especially in the face of culinary disaster (whatever you do, don鈥檛 mention ice cream cake).
Since then, baking has taken a backseat. These days, she's an outspoken writer, presenter and campaigner around body image. Her Instagram has become a powerful platform encouraging her followers to 鈥済et off the hamster wheel of body hatred鈥� 鈥� and it鈥檚 won her a legion of fans. She talks to Anna about just how early her introduction to diet culture was, the tipping point that made her pursue body neutrality, and how researching her book, Diet Starts Monday, opened her eyes to weight stigma.
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