She’d say: ‘If you get caught behaving badly and I lose my job, we’d have to take you out of your nice private school, away from your friends.’ It was always made clear to us that if we did anything to jeopardise my mum’s career, the whole family would lose out.
It was so embarrassing having to do photoshoots with my mum even though Ifelt really self conscious about my changing teenage body and my stomach was in knots every time I had to do a red carpet.
Her busy schedule meant we could only have one holiday a year, and while they were usually in brilliant locations, it was often intense for us to suddenly spend so much time together.
In her heyday, my mum was a hugely popular celebrity figure, regularly featuring on big TV shows and writing in newspapers.
There were some aspects of my mum’s fame that were great: we got to live in an amazing house and I attended a good school.
