I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

My husband says my toes are like Wall's cocktail sausages. He feels peckish whenever he sees them.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

I never believed I wouldn't make it - and perhaps that's why I've always found work. I've always stuck at everything I've ever done. I absolutely won't give up.

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.