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Our idea of a healthy body is so destabilised that insecure people have come to bolster their own bodies by deeming others - those with fat bodies - less worthy, less capable and less employable.
Susie Orbach
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Susie Orbach
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 6
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London
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