A taped cardboard box with a tiny purple hand emerging from its side and an orange ladder rising above it against a cyan background.

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Eddie

Inside of me there is a thin person screaming to get out.

— Absolutely Fabulous ‧ 1992

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Eddie jokes that a slimmer self is trapped inside, desperate to escape. The scream makes the wish to lose weight sound like a hostage situation. It's a comic way of admitting the body on show isn't the one imagined.

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