I know we all have our opinions, but mine is that her life is hardly of the workhouse variety. Had 'jobs' in the entertainment industry all her life, dancing and posing, and now describing items on screen. Owned a palatial Spanish villa with infinity pool, clearly mixes with other 'hard working' souls i.e. Simon Wilson, her partner bangs drums for a living, and writes novels when she has the time. I appreciate she's had health issues, but so have thousands of others - me included, diagnosed with Lupus 20 years ago but carried on working regardless.
My 'inspiration' is my grandmother, long since past. Born in 1899 the eldest of 13 children she helped to raise - yet didn't know about the facts of life until she was 24 and her future husband, my grandfather, told her ! She lived in a mining community and filled the tin bath with hot water in front of the fire for her husband home from the mine. She cooked on 1 gas ring and an open range fire. She had an industrial injury when working in the steel mills, - her right hand and arm got caught between two gigantic rollers which literally flattened it - no H & S in those days, yet she was a superb cook and baker. A wonderful woman who wore a spotlessly clean wraparound 'pinny' every day. All this a world away from today, but HER autobiography would have been well worth the read.
