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Louise McSharry spoke powerfully about body shaming on the Ray D'Arcy Show

The radio presenter spoke about her book and society’s attitude to weight.

BROADCASTER AND JOURNALIST Louise McSharry has had a serious rollercoaster of a few years.

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Louise, who is in remission after a battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, spoke about her joy of discovering she is pregnant on the Ray D’arcy show last night–despite the odds of conceiving naturally being against her and husband Gordon due to treatment.

The 2fm presenter is now 24 weeks pregnant, and about to release a memoir documenting everything from her tumultuous childhood, body issues, and feminism, to abandoning education and still ‘making it’.

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Despite such happy news, the last few months have also been quite bittersweet.

She spoke to Ray about the recent death of her biological mother, the same day she felt the baby kick for the first time.

The circle of life was put to me in black and white terms, because my biological mother, I got a phone call to say she was going to die in the next few hours, and I had just felt my baby kick for the first time, so it was a stark juxtaposition and made me really think of life, one thing goes and another thing starts.

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People watching were inspired by her outlook

She also spoke about fat shaming and how she wanted to use her book to help others who might be facing the same struggles accepting their body that she once did.

When I started about writing a book, I started thinking, what do I want a book I wrote to be? I didn’t want it to be ‘oh I had a sad childhood and I had cancer’.
I wanted it to serve a purpose, and for me, my journey with body image has been really difficult. I’m in a good place now, I feel a bit like an evangelist, I want to help people feel better about themselves.

She said the mere thought of being fat and the negative connotations that society puts on it, was “torture” to her.

We live in a world that is absolutely cruel to fat people, fat people’s bodies are up for discussion all the time, people feel entitled to talk about them tell you about it face to face.

Sometimes, she explained, people don’t even know they’re doing it.
If I sit in an office with coworkers and they’re talking about being such a fat cow because they had a takeout for dinner and they’re a size 10, and I’m sitting there a size 20. How am I feeling about my body? What must they think of me if they think they’re disgusting?
A lot of people think fat people should be punished, and they shouldn’t have nice clothes, and they shouldn’t feel good about themselves.

People were just like, YAS

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Louise’s book, Fat Chance, is out on June 2.

Most importantly, there will be talk of makeup

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    Mute Jules Lucas
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    Mar 4th 2013, 12:48 PM

    The impact of this scandal has done wonders for the local village butcher, which we are better off buying our meat from anyway in my opinion!

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    Mute Christmas Carroll
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    Mar 4th 2013, 12:56 PM

    Completely agree! Never mind the fact that at least you know what you’re getting is the real deal, it’s much healthier and tastes a hell of a lot better… Makes the extra money spent worth it!

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    Mute Figo murphy
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    Mar 4th 2013, 1:01 PM

    I agree. My local butcher is flying. He just bought a new car, he got rid of that old horse he used to go around on.

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    Mute Christmas Carroll
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    Mar 4th 2013, 1:03 PM

    Dammit Figo :-P

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    Mar 4th 2013, 12:53 PM

    Will this horse meat issue ever go away? It’s not that much of a big deal. Not to ruin any appetites but could you imagine the amount of little insects and other creatures that get minced in with the meat supply that we never know about.

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    Mute susanna smyth
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    Mar 4th 2013, 12:56 PM

    Burgers are tested for horse meat only. What other nasty could be in there disguised as beef ?

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    Mute Bo11ocks_to_this
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    Mar 4th 2013, 1:19 PM

    Did anyone else see the article from SA about water buffalo, horse and others found in beef. I’ll try find a link

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    Mute mcgoo
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    Mar 4th 2013, 1:15 PM

    A bit ironic that “Kanter” did the study eh?

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    Mute pat aherne
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    Mar 4th 2013, 1:21 PM

    When we were starting our then 18 month on meat (2years ago) my wife decided to get supermarket burgers just in case he did not like them – well to tell you the truth he pretty much threw the burger back at her. I said why not try butcher meat it will taste alot better and healthier for the child. She got a 1/4 pounder and he ate 2/3 of it. Hence even an 18 month old knew the taste of quality !!

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    Mute clareo79
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    Mar 4th 2013, 2:07 PM

    You gave an 18 month old a burger?!

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    Mute mister
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    Mar 4th 2013, 12:51 PM

    Interesting article. If I’m reading those stats correctly, does this indicate that ordinary local butchers have not experienced a bounce in trade? And if not, I wonder why?

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    Mute Hippocrateeth
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    Mar 4th 2013, 12:57 PM

    In other news, the number of horses commuting on the Dart has risen by over 800% in the past week. Community watch locals report a growing number of incidences involving horses some described as having ‘brazen attitudes’ and ‘brass balls’ towards concerned travellers waiting on the platforms for their respective trains. In a more striking example of the intimidation by the footloose horses, a 6-pack box of Silverdale frozen burgers was kicked at an elderly man’s head causing the man to curse loudly at the ebullient edible equine. The man was later taken for questioning. A file has been sent to the office of the DPP and a request for legal aid has been sought.

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    Mute Dave Kavanagh
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    Mar 4th 2013, 1:18 PM

    Great the media is loving this story and in doing so are systematically destroying one of Irelands core industries. Dont get me wrong I am totally for a free press but some of the sensationalism printed about this scandle (storm in a teacup) in relation to its connection with Ireland has been pure speculation and even when facts where established the Irish connection was still bigged up. Journal well done on being responsible and accurate if only other media would follow your example.

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    Mute Barry McSweeney
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    Mar 4th 2013, 3:22 PM

    If anyone is destroying one of Ireland’s core industries it is those who sold contaminated meat, the officials who refuse to admit that traceability “from farm to fork” is a lie, and the businessmen who refuse to speak publicly about what happened in their factories.
    Burying your head in the sand and “pulling on the green jersey” as you advocate will never work.

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    Mute АЛЕКСАНДРЪ ХАИШ
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    Mar 4th 2013, 5:47 PM

    Completely agree with you on this one, Dave!

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    Mute sid
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    Mar 4th 2013, 1:07 PM

    @ dodge

    I figure its a very big deal , nobody has any idea where what horses were used, could have used anything to bolster up the weight

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    Mar 4th 2013, 5:21 PM

    “FSAI” IS STILL WORKING ON CONTAMINATED MEAT PRODUCTS ???, WHILE THERE IS POISONOUS MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCTS RAPIDLY SPREAD ACROSS IRELAND! Disgrace!

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