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S15, Ep3 How To Fail: Melanie Chisholm on mental health, self-worth and the Spice Girls

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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I Was Anerexic for a Long Time, and I Was a Size 12 or 14 at the Time.

I was under weight for a long time. They would run poles like, who's the sexie spice girl? And they still went on to criticise the weather i looked. I think now it's all a little bit more read between the lines. Back then, it was very much, the language they used was shocking. We felt so owned by the media. You know, as a young person in the media at that time, you felt like, will you ask for this? The way women have gone on holiday and flaunted their bodies makes me furious. It's ve cruel. we're all guilty of it. But what really drives me mad is that sometimes these articles are written

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