“As a child, I looked like one of those adopt-a-child posters, with round (National Health Service) spectacles and a patch over my left eye. By the time I was 17, I looked like a refugee from the Playboy Club, with enormous bosoms, blonde hair and a liking for very short skirts and fishnets. So many people commented about my body that I lost all sense of it myself. I see old pictures and think I really was quite big.”

“I skirted around all sorts of eating disorders but I just slimmed down naturally.”