I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.

I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.

There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn’t mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.