Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.

There's something really empowering about going, 'Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!' That's the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just DO.

Femininity for me means happiness and freedom...freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.

By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.

I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.

I just look better in simple black things.