Yoga instructor Diana Skalkos: 'There’s an assumption that if you’re fat, you’re lazy or greedy'

From being judged by others to self-acceptance, Diana Skalkos draws on her long experience as a large-bodied woman when teaching yoga to women of a similar body size

Yoga Instructor Diana Skalkos: "Coming from a very middle-class family, the rules were ‘you must look gorgeous and not be touched’. I found that hard to navigate." Pictures: Chani Anderson

DIANA SKALKOS was the curvy one in her family, with bigger hips and breasts than her five sisters.

“I don’t think I was fat, but I always felt fat,” says Diana, now in her 50s, who grew up in Glanmire, Cork.