Sharon Horgan: ‘I hate that my daughters are seeing worryingly skinny bodies on screen’

Sharon Horgan is one of this generation’s greatest TV writers, with a catalogue of back-to-back hits. Her latest series Youth has just added another to that number.

When the 56-year-old Irish screenwriter, comedian and actress started her TV career in the early 2000s, there was ‘no grand plan’ to showcase the stages of her life on screen over the next two decades – yet things have a funny way of working out.

Her breakout sitcom came with Pulling, a semi-autobiographical comedy series about a woman entering her 30s in the big city, with nothing wo...