And this week’s edition is a corker. As well as discussing whether
girls should be taught to put careers before motherhood and offering the latest lowdown on Brangelina, it also features a great
interview by journalist Shane Watson with the model Daisy Lowe. The daughter of
designer Pearl Lowe and musician Gavin Rossdale, Daisy is only 24 but sounds sweet, unspoilt and impressively level-headed. She likes spending time with her mum, walking her
dog, eating sweets and is usually in bed by midnight.
But apart from all that, the reason I enjoyed the piece so
much was an anecdote Daisy told about Fat
is a Feminist Issue author Susie Orbach.
Orbach's daughter was one of Daisy’s best friends at school and Daisy remembers Orbach telling them: “You must eat. Do not listen to the
pressures of society, you are beautiful girls and you will grow into beautiful
women. You have nothing to worry about.”
What brilliant advice. I reckon Orbach’s words should be
pinned up on the board of every secondary school in the land…
