Bryony Gordon: ‘Embracing your flaws is the closest you get to perfection’
The bestselling author on sobriety, living with mental illness, and what she’d write in a letter to her 12-year-old self
Bryony Gordon, 38, is an author and journalist who has championed mental health awareness in her books and newspaper columns for the Daily Telegraph. Her first memoir, The Wrong Knickers (2014), was a bestseller. It was followed by the acclaimed Mad Girl (2016), about her battles with obsessive compulsive disorder, bulimia and addiction. Her third book, Eat, Drink, Run, is about training for the London Marathon and setting up a mental health support group, Mental Health Mates. She lives in Clapham, London, with her husband and daughter.
Yes, which makes me sound like I’m Madonna! It’s not like I can’t buy a pint, it doesn’t feel radical now, but when it came out two years ago people weren’t talking about mental health in that way.
