When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.

If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

When I got pregnant with my first child I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: "I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant." That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.

I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.