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But I find it so difficult to go out and be like 'Hey, I'm a sexpot.' At home I'm just a mum with food down her top!
My mum is the funniest and sweetest person I know; my sister's like my best friend, so it's great having them around.
When you're a full-time mum, you're constantly in that zone and doing breastfeeding and having a lot of boredom, too!
My greatest inspiration... is my mum, who had a baby at the age of 42 and is still so fit, independent and beautiful.
I'd gone from being a mum to all of a sudden having people fussing and overly pampering me. It can easily change you.
I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.
I've given her bragging rights. That's something my mum's definitely big on, like any African parent. Like any parent.
'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.
One of my favourite items is a very old jacket - it was my mum's uniform from when she was working 15 or 20 years ago.
I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.
I've been wearing jeans all my life. I remember my first denim as a kid because my mum used to buy me OshKosh overalls.
My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to talk about.
My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!
My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.
Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
My mum and dad always knew that my dream was to be a footballer, but they also warned me that it doesn't always work out.
I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be really... spectacular.
When I was 13, I remember crying on my mum's shoulder when my first girlfriend dumped me via MSN Messenger. That was cold.
My mum, Jennie Buckman, was a north London Jew who, with my dad, proudly chose to raise me and my two brothers in Hackney.
My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time by the sea.
What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
My mum and dad split up when I was five years old, and that was quite upsetting. But ever since then, I've been very hard.
I'd love to be an artist. My mum is so talented and she used to design her own greetings cards. I'm crap at drawing though.
I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand.
When Dad passed away, grandpa took on that mantle of teaching me how to tackle at football or taking me and mum to cricket.
Mum eventually graduated with a City & Guilds certificate that hung proudly on our living room wall throughout my childhood.
My parents split up when I was 16, and, while Mum came to a few Tests, Dad didn't make many. So I was glad he was at Lord's.
Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.
My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.
As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.
I was always a good cook from my mum showing me when I was a young lad, but hiring a chef helped me to understand food better.
I completely and utterly rely on my mum. Without my mum, I would not be anywhere at all. I'd literally just be a couch potato.
I love home, any home really - my mum's, and of course my own. I love eating food there and chilling in bed with a cup of tea.
I think my parents did want me to go to university just in case, but neither my mum or dad went to uni, so they couldn't talk.
I recognized a lot of Vogue in me and vice versa. We fit, we were very compatible together - even my mum thinks we're similar!
Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.
I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.
I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
I've always cared about issues, always thought through problems. I don't know how much that comes from my personality or my mum.
My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.
I have a good shopping relationship with my mum. She lets me buy, and she spectates. I take advice from her, and I give it, too.
Oh, I get compared to my mum in many way, be it looks, the performance or whatever else, but none of this seems like a negative.
My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.
I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.
Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.
I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.
I love being a mum but I do love to work too.
One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.