After a serious illness, the comedian decided to take her doctor’s advice and lose weight. Here, she talks about her complex relationship with her body, the lifelong abuse she received because of her appearance and healing the inner hurt that weight-loss medication cannot address
Alison Spittle. Photo: Ruth Medjber
Alison Spittle first went to Slimming World when she was in primary school. She listened as a room full of women spoke about calories and diets. What a waste of time and energy, she thought.
“It just seemed like a faff and something I wasn’t interested in,” she says. “Because I wasn’t going to put the effort into losing weight. I wasn’t going to put the effort into hating myself either. I wanted to just be neutral on it.”