Just as women are attracted to men of particular body types, Anya knows she won’t be to every man’s taste. A single mum, she recently had what she describes as a horrible experience with a chef she met on a dating app.‘On our second date he took me to a restaurant and being a chef he took over the ordering. When I tucked in he said he was relieved because he thought I was the type who wouldn’t eat anything and was probably anorexic. He was relieved, but I was furious.’Being slim and coming of age in the late 1960s was a golden age for girls like me. But, despite being plenty slim enough by normal standards, there was always further to go. So I tried the fad diets of the day, from the grapefruit diet via the Atkins and Scarsdale diets, and at one particularly naive point started to drink noxious teas as purgatives. I had started working on Cosmopolitan magazine and my behaviour was pretty much the norm.
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