# Alex Light

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What Women Aren't Told About Postnatal Recovery

We’re joined by Lauren Williams, a women’s health physiotherapist with a specialist interest in postnatal recovery, pelvic health, pregnancy-related pain, and helping women return confidently to exercise and everyday life after childbirth. We’ll be exploring some of the things women are very common…

Women's Prize winners, Weight, T20 World Cup, Mental healthcare

Last night, two debut authors received the Women’s Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction, each worth £30,000, respectively. Anita Rani speaks to the two winners, novelist Virginia Evans and Lyse Doucet, known to listeners as the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent. Last week, Hannah Murray, who pla…

Body Confidence & How the Media Changed the Way We See Ourselves

How much of the way you see your body is actually your own opinion… and how much has been shaped by the world around you? Inspired by Chapter 3 of You Are Not a Before Picture by Alex Light, this week’s episode explores how the media, diet culture, and social media influence our body confidence—and…

Laura checks in on her 2026 goals

It’s the middle of the year so we thought we’d check in on the goals we set ourselves at the start of the year! We're starting with Laura this week, and next week it's Steph's turn. This year we set goals according to the 3B’s framework: Betterment, Belonging & Becoming. In this episode, Laura ref…

Beauty Is Just a Trend: 100 Years of Impossible Beauty Standards

What if the beauty standard you’ve spent years chasing was always going to change? Inspired by Chapter 26 of You Are Not a Before Picture by Alex Light, this week’s episode takes a journey through the last 100 years of beauty ideals—from the flapper era to the Kardashians—to explore how women have…

The pressure on women to shrink their bodies - with Alex Light

Alex Light is a UK-based advocate and speaker on body image, body confidence & self-acceptance. Alex’s latest book is ‘The Price of Pretty: How toxic beauty standards are bringing women down and how we can fight back’.  You might’ve heard us talk about Alex on the podcast before we LOVE her conten…

From Weight Watchers to Embracing Your Features.

Send us Fan Mail This week,I'm flying solo and I'm so excited to be chatting with the inspirational Christina Testut.  Christina is a fierce body image advocate as well as a published author and Kindergarten teacher, and is passionate about developing confidence and building a strong self esteem wi…

EP260: Body Image with Alex Light

Nat was joined by the very wonderful Alex Light who many will have seen on social media, a tonic to the awful body image negativity in the media and society. She is also FRESH out of the hospital with her second child, so plenty of chat about motherhood too. Alex Light on Instagram - https://www.in…

Navi Pillay Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Medical misinformation, Nigella eating

Navanetham 'Navi' Pillay, a former International Criminal Court judge and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. In a statement announcing the award, the Nobel Committee praised Pillay's 'efforts to promote peace and international law'. She is the fi…