Women’s Hour host Jenni Murray says she ‘does not agree with celebrating fat’

The presenter has said having weight loss surgery is "the best money I have ever spent" 
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Rachel McGrath7 July 2020
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Women’s Hour presenter Dame Jenni Murray said she “doesn’t agree with celebrating fat” and revealed the £10,000 she paid for weight lost surgery is “the best money I’ve ever spent.”

The broadcaster, 70, underwent an operation in 2015 to have three-quarters of her stomach removed.

Since having the sleeve gastrectomy, Dame Jenni can only eat small portions of food and her weight has dropped from 24 stone to 14-something, she told the Radio Times.

It came after “a lifetime of grappling” with her size, she told the magazine.

Murray with co-host Jane Garvey and the Duchess of Cornwall, at a Buckingham Palace reception in 2016 (Getty Images )
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Dame Jenni now wants to warn others about the dangers of being overweight, taking aim at those who want to “celebrate being fat.”

She said: “I’m not afraid of the word fat. I look at all these people who say ‘let’s celebrate being fat’ and I think, ‘I’d love to be with you, but I know the damage it can do’.”

She also criticised what she terms “white wine culture,” saying: “Women especially treat white wine as a non-alcoholic beverage.

“The whole wine o’clock thing is very bad news.”

Dame Jenni’s new book, Fat Cow, Fat Chance: the Science And Psychology Of Size, was her attempt to understand how she, “a highly intelligent, extremely well-educated woman”, became morbidly obese.

Read the full interview in the Radio Times.

Additional reporting by Press Association

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