Episode 24 - Untangling health, thinness and external validation with Aurélie Montenair
In this episode, Nicola and Florence welcome Aurelie Montenair. Raised in France where most girls start dieting at 8, Aurelie went on her first diet as an 18 year old. She tells us about her descent into full-blown orthorexia and HA, and what it took to deconstruct many of the beliefs about body size, health and women she had internalised since childhood. Together we explore European culture when it comes to thinness, health and fatphobia, control and denial, and also why girls and wome...