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Niki Bezzant

Niki Bezzant

New Zealand writer, journalist, and menopause health expert; author of bestselling books and board member of Osteoporosis New Zealand.

Jul 29, 2026

Emma Wright
Emma WrightHOST
5:21
That's my genetic
5:24
kind of, you know, inheritance.
5:27
And so I guess...
5:30
I was always subject to comments about my body, you know, because just as it was fine to comment on large bodies, it was fine to comment on smaller bodies too.
5:38
And so, you know, I was called stick insect and all these kinds of things as a kid.
5:41
I don't know that it really bothered me too much, but I probably internalized the belief like most of us have that weight is somehow – a moral issue, some kind of moral judgment of character, all of that kind of stuff.
5:58
That was all around me.

5 MINS LATER

Emma Wright
Emma WrightHOST
11:22
And actually, for

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