I spent the formative years of my life having people come up to me saying, 'Wow, you're not as fat as I thought you were'. But I can't deny that in some ways it made me develop a self-consciousness.
Yalda Hakim was a baby when her family fled Kabul on horseback. Now one of our courageous journalists, it's her Aussie-ness that is the secret to her success, she tells Celina Edmonds.