Arabella Weir
Arabella Weir
Arabella Weiris a British comedian, actress and writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth6 December 1965
class goal priorities
When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
growing-up welcome made
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.
crush actors life-is
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
children school firsts
Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
people helping duty
If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.
kindness teenager school
There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.
shopping eating cliche
When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.
kids school london
I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.
dad america diplomats
My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
children car honest
If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.
children real coffee
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.
father sibling school
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
girl tables might
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
father long childhood
I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.