I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

I'll always be a fat girl and I am happy with that.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.

It was my father who taught me to value myself.