Artist Larry Kirkwood doesn’t agree with British psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos that adults are more immune from the personal self-doubts raised by the body/beauty industry. Big people aren’t half as sensible as we should be in evaluating the standardized physical mythology around us.

Happy with yourself for getting a buff, athletic body like an 80s supermodel, you wake up one morning to discover that having muscles is a poor showing in the beauty department. Damseldom is ‘in’ and you don’t fit the beauty standard any longer.

‘Off with your head!’ say the fashionistas. ‘Better yet, burlap bag it.’