If you said, 'I'm giving up smoking,' people would put on a parade. If you said, 'I'm going to eat more healthily,' people would say, 'Good for you.' If it's drinking, the first reaction is, 'That's so boring. You're going to be so boring.'
I had the biggest dry-cleaning bill on 'Daybreak' because I was always on the run and spilling coffee on myself.
After my first marriage ended in 2002 I went out with someone who made me feel very sexy. He was ten years younger than me and full of the joy of youth, which was wonderful after all the sadness of divorce, and a great confidence boost.
Well we have a tiny garden, it's like a postage stamp, so generally we try to get out to the parks in London as much as possible.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to keep things clean. It's just the neatness I struggle with.
A friend puts body moisturiser on every day because it makes her feel desirable. I have started doing it, too, and it really works.
My husband is very much of the ilk that expects to waited on hand and foot during the festive season.
I realise, of course, that my cluttered existence is deeply unfashionable.
I have always felt so bombarded with dietary advice that always seemed to make me feel guilty about the 'naughty' food I secretly preferred, that I switched off and ate what I fancied.
When you're juggling children, a marriage and a couple of jobs, something has to give - and, for me, it's living in a perfectly tidy home.
I have been lucky enough to go to all sorts of places - diving in Malaysia, snorkelling with wild turtles in Cuba and dolphin-spotting in Kenya.
You can't beat a British holiday for rock pooling and sandcastles with fish and chips on the seafront - perfect.
I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.
Sequin trousers can be scary and many women may worry they will be unflattering on their legs.
Looking back on my early romantic life, I was more worried about what impression I made on my dates than what I thought of them. I would approach them as though they were job interviews, trying to wow the man so that he would ask me out again and I got the 'job.'
It's a bit of a joke among my friends that, although I'm very busy, active and constantly rushing around all over the place, I've always struggled to fit any 'real' exercise into my life.
Much is written about parenting - its joys and tribulations - and then about the transition into hot flushes, night sweats and (if we're lucky) a new life as a grandmother.
The clever thing about the designs on 'Strictly' is that the razzle-dazzle comes from the materials used in making the dresses rather than because the cut or style is plunging or revealing.
I think that political coverage generally comes in on a level that means if you live and breathe Westminster detail and diary, then you get it.
Of course, I could try IVF. But having watched my friend TV presenter Clare Nasir go through it, I know how tough the journey is. Emotional fool I may be, but even I can see that's too selfish a course of action to impose on my family.
