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Podcast: How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Episode: ON BODY IMAGE… With Martine Wright and Paloma Faith
Description: Body image is a common theme on How to Fail. It’s something everyone at some point has either struggled with personally, or knows someone who has.
We hear from Paloma Faith on the topic - she speaks about being thrown out of ballet school aged 10, because she showed signs of becoming curvy, and that wasn’t the correct body for a ballet dancer.
Then we go to a part of my conversation with the incredible British sitting volleyball player, Martine Wright. Martine lost both of her legs in the 7/7 London bombings in 2005 and speaks so e...