Rose Stokes: Taking weight loss jabs, breastfeeding struggles and living in a body people won't stop judging

My guest on this episode is Rose Stokes, best known for her honest, nuanced writing on motherhood, women's health and living in a body the world won't stop having opinions about. You'll have seen her byline in the Guardian, Grazia, the Telegraph and Women's Health. Rose is also a mum of two, and she's just about to launch her first podcast, A Matter of Fat, with Cambridge geneticist Professor Giles Yeo.

Rose tells me why she recently went back on GLP-1 weight loss jabs after having her second baby, knowing exactly the criticism it would bring, and why she still isn't fully comfortable with the word "obesity".

We also chat about:

Why she assumed breastfeeding would be the one thing she'd definitely be good at, and what happened insteadThe moment she realised motherhood wasn't going to "complete" her the way she'd always been told it wouldHaving postnatal depression after her first baby and choosing to go again anywayWhy she thinks the UK not classing obesity as a chronic disease is more complicated than it soundsWhat she actually wants listeners to feel by the end of an episode of A Matter of FatHer son's brutally honest take on leaving nursery

Find Rose on Instagram: @rosestokes

Listen to A Matter Of Fat podcast: https://www.instagram.com/amatteroffatpod/

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Music: Epidemic Sound

Artwork: Eleanor Bowmer

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