I think I suffer from body dysmorphia - I don't see what other people see.

I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

I know a lot of people didn't expect our relationship to last - but we've just celebrated our two months' anniversary.

I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.

My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.

A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.