I’m definitely interested in engaging more with that.” For once I have a great real life, which helps. “More and more I find myself taking breaks for days and even a week at a time and it’s good stepping away. She recently moved to Los Angeles and has taken a step back from the social media whirl. That said her life is no longer as isolated as it was in her twenties when the Internet “allowed me to pretend I was anyone else…a saving grace when I was at my most mentally fragile and losing my sense of self”. Because how do you make it through this world without some sort of self-loathing given how demonised and degraded women are and how often. Whenever people say they don’t have any kind of self-loathing I always want to say really? Teach me. She is pleased that Hunger’s success “did change some hearts and minds about how we think about unwieldy bodies, how we treat fat people and how we accommodate different kinds of bodies in different kinds of spaces” but adds that “there’s a good deal of work to be done. “They love the way we love, they hurt the way we hurt and unfortunately because they’ve not been exposed to a great deal of diversity they’re very protective of what they have and very entitled about what they don’t. I’ve lived there for 80 per cent of my life. Everyone working in service here from the hotel front desk to the housekeeping and waiters is an immigrant so what the hell is the plan?” – to the reality of life in the ‘flyover states’: “I was born and raised among these people.
Warm, charismatic and considered, her answers are as precise as her prose, and as wide-ranging taking in everything from Brexit – “If it actually happens the UK will collapse. Meeting her in person it’s easy to see why. At the end the rapt audience gave Gay a standing ovation. A packed event earlier this week in London’s Southbank Centre managed to be both electric in its anticipation and intensely personal in delivery. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Such clear-eyed honesty has won her fans from all ages and backgrounds. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.