I Shave My Body In

I've Had People Ask Me In Interviews What It's Like To Have Money, But That's Not How It Is. I Have A Middle-class Life. I Have A Room In London But Not A House, Nor A Bmw.

There Is No Shame Like Poor Shame. It Can Make You Warm And Charming, Bitter And Resentful, All At Once.

Reclaiming The Word Fat Was The Most Empowering Step In My Progress. I Stopped Using It For Insult Or Degradation And Instead Replaced It With Truth, Because The Truth Is That I Am Fat, And That's Ok. So Now When Someone Calls Me Fat, I Agree, Whereas Before I Would Get Embarrassed And Emotional.

You Know How People Love To Glamorize Poverty? There's Nothing Glamorous About It. But It Did Make Me Really Creative. Those Days, I Was Literally Taking T-shirts In The Day And Sewing Them Back Together To Make Dresses For The Night.

We Have To Stop This Idea That We Have To Be A Certain Shape.