Major Turnaround

A sausage changed my life

Rowena Calderwood, 39, Burleigh Heads, Qld.

My mother gripped my hand and brought her lips to my ear. “Look at that fat woman over there,” she said. We were in the shopping centre and a stranger was walking past. I was only five, but Mum made comments like this all the time to me. She’d suffered with body dysmorphia for as long as I could remember, living mainly on coffee and cigarettes. Mum was born to a wealthy family in Iran. Her father, my grandfather, served directly under the king and she was brought up in the palace surrounded by riches. But when the military staged a coup in August 1953, she was forced to flee with her family to the UK. She met my father at a party, fell in love and then fell pregnant.…

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