{"id":404611,"date":"2026-04-18T05:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404611\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:31:12","slug":"katriona-osullivan-a-lot-of-my-friends-have-had-gastric-sleeves-theyre-on-ozempic-theyve-had-their-face-done-their-arse-done-if-you-look-at-the-more-educated-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404611\/","title":{"rendered":"Katriona O\u2019Sullivan: \u2018A lot of my friends have had gastric sleeves. They\u2019re on Ozempic. They\u2019ve had their face done, their arse done. If you look at the more educated woman, it\u2019s very different \u2013 it looks like wellness\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\">Sex, pleasure, abuse, slimming clubs, gastric bands, pregnancy, addiction, food&#8230; in her new book, Katriona O\u2019Sullivan bares all on the subject of her body. Here, she talks about how being sexual abused a child affected her relationship with her body, toxic diet culture and a life spent trying to shrink herself\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Katriona O'Sullivan. Photo: Ruth Medjber\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ee4b4cbf-c643-4951-8daa-c0cfda218abe.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)\">Katriona O&#8217;Sullivan. 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)\">We\u2019ve barely sat down in the bar of a Dublin 8 hotel when two women make a tentative approach. \u201cWe\u2019re psychology students,\u201d they explain, fizzing with enthusiasm. \u201cEveryone on the course idolises you.\u201d<\/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)\">Katriona O\u2019Sullivan, academic, psychologist and author, takes all of this in her stride. She immediately stands up for a selfie and a kind word, in a way that makes me believe this isn\u2019t an irregular occurrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sex, pleasure, abuse, slimming clubs, gastric bands, pregnancy, addiction, food&#8230; in her new book, Katriona O\u2019Sullivan bares all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,178203,12271],"class_list":{"0":"post-404611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-katriona-osullivan","12":"tag-tanya-sweeney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404611","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=404611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}