In 2021, I was asked to be a judge at the pageant,” she explains. “I was so impressed with the transformations of the women. Many of them had lived through real hardship and I admired their courage so much.
“I looked at the classes they were taking part in and thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be lovely to experience that and just focus on yourself for a while?’ The last 20 years has been head-down, bum-up, getting on with work for me, so I asked the
