Nigella: ‘I worry about my weight ... but greed always wins’
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Tuesday Jun 14 2011
Celebrity cook Nigella Lawson has admitted that she constantly worries about her weight ... but that greed always out-weighs her vanity.
She also disclosed how being a parent was hard and that some of the demands of motherhood was “impossible”.
In an interview on Monday with Kirsty Young, the BBC presenter, she warned she did not want to be seen as “a poster girl of the well-padded woman”.
“Any woman who says ‘I have never worried about my weight’, or, ‘I have never gone on a diet’, is lying,” she told Young.
“There are times when I want to lose weight. I suppose the difference is I don't want to be as thin. Greed always outweighs my vanity’’.
And on parenthood: “Just because you have children doesn't mean you become a fantastic mother. I find many of the demands of motherhood impossible. So, for me, stirring something in the kitchen is one of the easiest things I can do.”
Lawson admitted that she was “beyond embarrassment” over a series of pictures of her on Bondi Beach, when she was a guest on the Masterchef TV series.
Her figure sparked discussion in April after shunning a revealing swimsuit for a visit.
Instead, she sported a black two-piece and peaked cap, leaving only her hands, feet and face showing.
Referring to the less-than flattering pictures of her in the black, full length swimsuit, she said it was because she was “sun-phobic” and bored of needing to reapply sun cream constantly.
“If you're being used as an example of someone looking fat and ugly on the beach, no one feels good,” she said.
“It would have been a lot worse had I been in a bikini.”
She also disclosed how she watched her mother, the heiress Vanessa Salmon, battle anorexia and bulimia.
This experience helped her develop an “emphatic belief that one doesn't deny oneself pleasure in food”.
But she admitted that after comfort eating, she “puffed up straight away, wearing vulnerabilities and weaknesses on the surface”.
In the interview she also repeats how fans of Lawson's cooking do not include her husband, advertising guru and art expert Charles Saatchi.
She admitted she did not mind that her 68-year-old husband famously prefers Weetabix and Dairylea to her cooking.
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