I am very precise about what food I like. I'm very much a nursery-food person, and really hate chichi dishes.
There were times when rehab and the halfway house were very, very tough, but I never felt that I wanted to leave.
You don't find women with great confidence dressed as if they don't care.
I hate trends, but I love fashion.
So many women buy these boxy, shapeless jackets. I always tell them to buy a jacket one size too small to get the right fit.
Shorts are practically a uniform in every woman's closet. Tailored shorts are okay for running around, and if you're 18, you can get away with cut-offs. But it's very easy to make a mistake with shorts.
Even my basic, basic wardrobe is still pathetically colour coordinated. It just is. That is just me.
I would never go out in track bottoms and a baggy T-shirt.
I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.
Diets are rubbish. I eat healthily, and often have a day when I stuff myself.
To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word.
In some ways, I'm slightly like a single parent, so I need to be able to provide for my family.
I was a very unconfident teenager. I wanted desperately to fit in.
I grew up in a very normal home.
I came to London when I was 16 and lived with my older sister.
The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.
Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.
Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.
I want to feel I have the energy I will need as an older mother having a younger baby. It's really important that when I'm 51, and my daughter is 10, that I feel I can still run around and do things with her, and feel the energy of a slightly younger woman having their kids at school.
My first proper job was as a commodities broker. I went off to work every morning in an '80s power suit. I couldn't afford a good one, so I'd buy nice buttons instead and make it look better than it actually was.
