I posted the article as a "gift" link, which means anyone should be able to read it via the link.
To your point on the comments about weight: I know the body positivity movement means that it has become rightfully unacceptable to remark on anyone else's size, but it also seems to mean that people can't discuss their own physical insecurities publicly without getting called out and told to be positive before others. That's both good and bad.
As far as this article goes, I am assuming that it was condensed down from a series of conversations, and, taking a step back to the interviewer who framed and wrote the story, I did find the choice of that material for inclusion incongruous next to the more analytical aspects of Thurman's work as a writer.
One doesn't usually read of men's physical insecurities in interviews about their intellectual oeuvres.
Not entirely related -- I am somehow minded of TS Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock and his self-talk about aging:
"And indeed there will be time
To wonder, 'Do I dare?' and, 'Do I dare?'
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair —
(They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!')
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin —
(They will say: 'But how his arms and legs are thin!')
