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

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

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.