F rom teaching dance to running a kids’ summer school, managing a gym and lecturing in nutrition, I’ve racked up quite the CV.
I didn’t start out with big plans, but somehow I ended up a career chameleon. I married a Frenchman at 25 and lived in Paris doing various jobs, including teaching swimming and English to children. But not long after having a baby, I realised my then husband and I wanted different things. He had a very traditional view of what a woman ‘should’ do: stay at home, cook and clean. I wasn’t made like that. So in 1980, I returned to London, moved in with my mum