Quotes

"I have a couple of pairs of his socks that I wear all the time and think of him. one minute I'm fine and then the next minute, suddenly a smell or a joke hits me and I'm off in floods of tears and hopeless for the rest of the day." - on her father, John Thaw.

Sadly, it is often a death that prompts people to write. It's a way of conversing with the dead and definitely helps in a therapeutic way. But, unlike Sheila, what I write isn't for the public eye, not yet!

I made a conscious decision not to get married at the beginning of our relationship. I was terrified of marriage not working because I had seen it fail so many times.

My upbringing has definitely influenced how I want to raise my own daughter, Molly Mae, who's five. I want her to grow up believing that she can be whatever she wants to be and that there are no doors closed to her because of her sex. She is generally a very confident child, but what she has referred to recently, which frightens my partner Nigel and me, is concerns about her body image. Last summer, for example, before I was pregnant again, she said, "Your tummy's thin. Why have I got a big round tummy? I want a thin tummy." Now, that might just reflect the fact that little girls are fascinated with their mothers' bodies, but I found it quite alarming, especially since all her friends are into crop tops and showing off their bellybuttons.