The host of Woman's Hour has revealed the 'distressing' fat-shaming she endured before she lost five stone.
Dame Jenni Murray, 68, said she had been called a 'fat cow' by strangers in street, which described as 'infuriating'.
Speaking at a conference about the benefits of metabolic surgery at King's College London, Jenni said she hadn't had the name-calling since she she had her gastric band fitted in 2015.
At the conference she called for obesity to be considered a 'disease' and not a condition, reports the Express.
Dame Jenni Murray, 68, has revealed the fat-shaming she experience before she lost five stone. She recalled being called a 'fat cow' by strangers in the street. Pictured: Jenni in 2012 before her gastric band
Speaking at a conference about the benefits of metabolic surgery at King's College London, the Woman's Hour host called for obesity to be considered a disease not a condition. Pictured: Jenni at a photocall during the annual Edinburgh International Book Festival last summer
Jenni, who has hosted Radio 4's Woman's Hour since 1987, said she 'had tried every diet known to woman or man' but struggled to lose weight.
She said: 'It is very interesting that since I've had this surgery, I don't get called a ''fat cow'' in the street any more and that used to happen frequently, particularly if I was driving my car and overtook some bloke.
And sometimes it was 'fat – other very vulgar words – cow' and it would happen a lot.
'It was overt, it was distressing and it was infuriating.'
Jenni said she 'had tried every diet known to woman or man' but struggled to lose weight and so opted for a gastric band in 2015. Pictured: Jenni in January 2013 before her surgery
Jenni called her experience of body-shaming 'distressing and infuriating' during her speech. Pictured: Jenni after she received her DBE from the Queen for services to Radio Broadcasting in 2011
Jenni also theorised that her weight may have stopped her from working in television, as she claims she has had more offers to appear onscreen since losing weight.
She said: 'I was always really rather glad I did radio than television and as I got more and more obese I doubt anyone would have asked me to do television.
'But now I've got a bit thinner they are saying maybe you'd like to come back on to the screen. But I am quite happy on the radio thank you very much.'
She decided to get a gastric band fitted when she was out with her son and they saw an obese woman using a mobility scooter, and he pleaded with her not to end up the same way.
Writing in 2014, Jenni said realising that she could no longer fit into her old swimming costumes and the humiliation of going up several sizes for a new one made her decide to do something about her weight.
She said at the time: 'Something radical has to be done. And reluctantly, I am coming to the conclusion that 'something' is a gastric band.
Only two of 53 European nations are fatter than Britain, a new report revealed earlier this week.
The UN study found that two in three of us are overweight and one in four is obese.
It blamed the crisis on lack of exercise, poor diet and heavy drinking. Campaigners said the figures were frightening and warned that deaths from diabetes and heart disease could spiral without urgent action.
Our obesity rate of 28 per cent is beaten only by Turkey, with 32 per cent, and Malta at 29 per cent. The European average is 23 per cent.
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Dame Jenni Murray, 68, said she had been called a ‘fat cow’ by strangers in street, which described as ‘infuriating’.
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