She is the undisputed queen of the kitchen, cooking up delicious dishes both savoury and sweet, but Nigella Lawson insists she doesn’t pay any thought to putting on weight because of what she eats. “My mum had a problematic relationship with food and I did think, “I don’t want to be like that.” I would rather have more flesh and eat more food,” she says. However, Nigella, 64, does admit that the issue around body image and weight was “hard to resist”.