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Arabella Weir
British
Comedian
Born:
Dec 6
,
1957
Life
Me
People
School
Time
You
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I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.
Arabella Weir
School
Kids
London
Primary
North
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.
Arabella Weir
People
Coffee
Parents
Important
Books
Drank
Pleasure
Kids
Out
Degrees
Both
Winners
Had
Spoke
Like
Read
Foreign
Real
Foreign Languages
Were
Overweight
Oxford
Children
Cut
Languages
Who
Fat
Museums
I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
Arabella Weir
Mistakes
Slept
About
Write
Most
Because
Greatest
Them
Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.
Arabella Weir
Beautiful
Incredibly
Macbeth
Has-Been
Both
Tourists
Sadly
Because
Isle
Been
Discovered
Scotland
Where
Shot
I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.
Arabella Weir
Life
Myself
You
People
My Life
Control
Other
Way
Ghastly
Out
Could
Tour
Never
Remind
Done
Which
Package
Turn
Then
Appeals
Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?
Arabella Weir
Education
Good
Class
Everybody
State
Say
Kids
Promote
Know
Look
Just
Irrespective
Want
Race
Standards
Why
Right
Raise
When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
Arabella Weir
Class
Only
Feature
Well
Priority
Doing
Goal
Very
List
Going
Low
Your
Popularity
Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.
Arabella Weir
You
Lose
Extremely
More
Only
Weight
Likely
Makes
Go
Any
Diet
Dieting
Regain
Gain
Even
Ever
Fat
As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.
Arabella Weir
Me
Welcome
Made
Clear
Up
Person
Expected
Growing
Growing Up
Thin
Fat
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
Arabella Weir
Girl
Society
Else
Table
More
More Than Anything
She
Than
Prizes
Being
Anything
Anything Else
Might
Thin
Bring
Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
Arabella Weir
Life
Time
School
First
Terrifying
First Time
Off
Child
Sending
Your
Your Child
Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.
Arabella Weir
Life
Me
Son
Old
Crime
He
Headed
Over
Like
Looks
Call
Very
Anxious
Much
Mum
I don't understand boys - just ask my husband.
Arabella Weir
Husband
Understand
Boy
Just
Ask
If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.
Arabella Weir
Time
Car
Spending
Spending Time
Ghastly
Pretty
About
Children
Honest
When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.
Arabella Weir
Shopping
Become
Bit
Eating
Like
Cliche
Although
Afraid
If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.
Arabella Weir
Buy
Down
Locally
Gifts
Hunting
Like
As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?
Arabella Weir
Theatre
Kids
Out
Favourite
London
Shakespeare
He
Knew
Takes
Performance
Snack
Huge
Handed
Huge Fan
Get
Where
Children
Fan
Pizza
Interested
Who
Twelfth
Actress
Night
Dragged
If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.
Arabella Weir
You
People
Power
Duty
Out
Any
Being
Then
Help
Help People
Popular
I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.
Arabella Weir
Legal
Charity
Would
Like
Linked
Requirement
Businesses
Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.
Arabella Weir
Me
Building
Other
Developed
Weight
Beyond
Self-Esteem
Sticking
Permanently
Source
Self-Worth
Up
Diet
Different
Happily
Low
Low Self-Esteem
Required
Skills
Eventually
The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.
Arabella Weir
Me
Cake
Too
Eat
Likes
She
Got
Real
May
Now
Thin
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