In the winter of 2022, the global pandemic seemed to be finally receding, so for the first time in two years I went to a party in . I felt schlubby and slightly self-conscious, because I had hit 14 stone since the world shut down. The party was thrown by an Oscar-winning actor, and I was taken aback that nobody else had gained weight. Everyone looked like their own filter. Their cheekbones were higher, their stomachs tighter. I bumped into an old friend and said to her, in a kind of shamed mumble, that I guessed everyone really did take up pilates in lockdown. She laughed and stared at me, stunned that I didn’t know what was really happening.She pulled up on her a picture of a light blue plastic tube of Ozempic with a tiny needle sticking out of it. My weight has see-sawed several times in my life, from being slightly underweight to being obese.
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