Nigella Lawson has slammed diet culture as she admitted she'd "rather have more flesh and eat more food". The TV chef, 64, shot to fame back in 1998 with her debut cookery book, How To Eat. Just a year later, she launched her own Channel 4 cooking show, Nigella Bites - and has captivated viewers ever since.
Nigella has insisted that the issue around body image and weight was "hard to resist" but doesn't pay any thought to it. It stemmed from her mother's relationship with food as she explained: “My mum had a problematic relationship with food and I did think, 'I don’t want to be like that'. I would rather have more flesh and eat more food.
" Nigella, who recently hit out at weight loss drig Ozepmic, added: "The real truth is you have to work out what matters to you in life and what matters to me is eating. It is the way I celebrate life.” “If I did not make every meal something that I really want to take pleasure in I think I would feel overwhelmed with lassitude, slight depression and disconnection," she said in conversation with food critic Jay Rayner at The Barbican in London.
“I don’t have a particularly fancy palette – I love all sorts of foods – and I don’t really want restaurant fine dining. I adore restaurants and I am inspired by chefs, but I don’t want to cook like one. I love stirring a pot!” M&S's two seater garden bench charms shoppers with striking heart design Nigella has opened up on her relationship with food ( Image: Toronto Star via Get.
