I'm in the lucky position financially where I don't have to do things I don't want to do.

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.

My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.

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.

I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

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

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