I dont understand boys - just ask my husband.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, 'Oh, my friend's a really, really big Doctor Who fan,' and he replied, 'Wait!' He got his cheque book out and asked, 'What his name?' I said 'David Tennant'. He wrote, 'To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five', signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, 'He'll know'