{"id":249330,"date":"2026-01-17T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249330\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:39:09","slug":"alison-spittle-people-are-nicer-to-me-i-get-praise-its-weird-to-get-praise-for-essentially-injecting-yourself-with-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249330\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Spittle: \u2018People are nicer to me. I get praise. It\u2019s weird to get praise for essentially injecting yourself with something\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAfter a serious illness, the comedian decided to take her doctor\u2019s 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\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alison Spittle. Photo: Ruth Medjber\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7cab4370-5f93-460b-8efa-3fb764737d99.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Alison Spittle. Photo: Ruth Medjber<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cIt just seemed like a faff and something I wasn\u2019t interested in,\u201d she says. \u201cBecause I wasn\u2019t going to put the effort into losing weight. I wasn\u2019t going to put the effort into hating myself either. I wanted to just be neutral on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a serious illness, the comedian decided to take her doctor\u2019s advice and lose weight. Here, she talks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,9715],"class_list":["post-249330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kirsty-blake-knox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}