Join Arabella Weir as she reads extracts from her hilarious new book, ‘The Real Me is Thin’, launched last September.

Written with startling frankness, Arabella unravelsher own eating history in this humorous appraisal of our attitudes towards eating disorders and obesity.Not easy for someone who still can’t be alone unsupervised in a room with a packet of chocolate biscuits.

Charting Arabella’s neurotic relationship with food, from prolonged abstinence to binge eating, this humorous memoir recreates a childhood besieged with battles over food. Recounting stories of unhinged mothers and callous doctors, mystery-meat suppers, and egg custard battles with calculating boyfriends’ mothers, this candid memoir vividly recreates a childhood and adolescence marred by the social embarrassment of being marked out as different simply due to your weight.

Arabella Weir is the author of the best selling ‘Does My Bum Look Big In This?’ and is best known for her role in BBC2’s The Fast Show. Arabella contributed regularly to the Radio 4 comedy series Smelling of Roses and most recently appeared in E4’s teen drama Skins. Arabella also recently appeared in the West End show Calendar Girls.