No, I Always Wanted To Be An

I Think You Know What You're Up Against When You Take On A Piece That You Know Is Going To Involve Dragging Up A Lot Emotions - You Can End Up Being Deeply Immersed In Gloom.

But I Didn't Really Enjoy My Secondary Education That Much, Probably Because I Am A Very Physical Person And Don't Enjoy Sitting At A Desk All Day. I Just Dragged Myself Through Gcse And A Levels, So It Suited Me Very Much To Go On To Drama School, Which Was Very Active.

I Was On Holiday Recently And I Came Home To Find That One Of The Papers Here Had 'bikini'd' Me On The Beach. I Was Wearing A Grossly Unflattering Costume And They Had Published Photographs Of Me Taken From Behind. I Looked Dreadful. I Went Into Our Local Newsagent And Bought Up Every Copy.

I Could Suddenly See The Pressures All Around; These Endless Magazines And Cheap Reality Tv Programmes Poking At Women, Humiliating Us For Every Flaw. It Makes Me So Angry. I Really Wonder What It Is We Are Doing To Ourselves, Because I Do Think Women Can Be The Worst Ones For Picking Each Other Apart.

Whatever I'm Doing, I Try To Give It Everything.