I’ve been thinking about this lately as I’m launching my shop. Most of the pieces were designed exclusively for it and each designer cuts their patterns differently and assigns sizes in their own way, so the size doesn’t tell you a whole lot, which is why I’m giving full measurements for each item. One of the collections is Italian and cut for women who aren’t particularly curvy, and I worry that women won’t want to order the large, which is really like a 12 and what most women will fit into.

I having everything from xs to 16 in my closet, meaning clothes that I can wear right now. It’s ridiculous. But at the end of the day I’m not so vain and daft to avoid things because that particular manufacturer didn’t see it fit to flatter me with some illusion. I cringed a bit when I had to buy size 16 leggings but I knew they were cut really small – at the same time I also bought two size 12 leggings from the same shop! – and they fit so I just bought them. I know women who will search until the size they want to be accommodates them. Unbelievable. I know when I’m slim and I know when I’m fat. I agree we’d better start thinking for ourselves – delusions are dangerous!

The trouble with Fat Power is that you get very defensive about your weight and vehement too and then depending on your mindset you might end up getting bigger. And that’s why I’ve got a gastric band. You might call it a drastic band, but I had to do something and I was conscious of the health risks of being large.