Nigella Lawson slams diet culture after weight loss transformation - 'I would rather have more flesh and eat more food'
ok.co.ukShe is the undisputed queen of the kitchen, cooking up delicious dishes both savoury and sweet, but Nigella Lawson insists she doesn’t pay any thought to putting on weight because of what she eats. “My mum had a problematic relationship with food and I did think, “I don’t want to be like that.” I would rather have more flesh and eat more food,” she says.
However, Nigella, 64, does admit that the issue around body image and weight was “hard to resist”. “The real truth is you have to work out what matters to you in life and what matters to me is eating.
It is the way I celebrate life,” says the London-born mum of two in conversation with food critic Jay Rayner at The Barbican in London. “If I did not make every meal something that I really want to take pleasure in I think I would feel overwhelmed with lassitude, slight depression and disconnection. “I don’t have a particularly fancy palette – I love all sorts of foods – and I don’t really want restaurant fine dining.
I adore restaurants and I am inspired by chefs, but I don’t want to cook like one. I love stirring a pot!” With three million followers on Instagram and more than two million on Facebook, cook, author, journalist and TV presenter Nigella has been at the top of her professional game for decades.
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