Lisa Snowdon is extra stunning than anybody has a proper to be, with a physique that we will solely dream of getting. She is intelligent and moved simply from modelling to TV presenting.
Her five-year, on/off affair with George Clooney was sufficient to make most of us women need to have spent at the very least a number of moments really being her.
But, at simply 44, her gilded life appears a little bit tarnished. She is carrying a bikini within the Australian jungle — and as we all know, I'm A Celeb . . . is the final resort for TV stars with failing careers.
But it surely's not simply her modelling and TV work which can be vanishing. So, it appears, are her possibilities of changing into a mom.
When requested by a fellow failed celeb within the jungle if she wished youngsters, she mentioned: 'Not now. It's a bizarre one as a result of it's so laborious. I left it sort of late. I didn't discover anyone that I wished to really be with and I didn't need to have children . . . simply to have children.'
She spoke of lacking out on motherhood as casually as most of us would discuss lacking a bus or a prepare. There'll be one other one alongside quickly.
But when a girl reaches her 40s, fairly often there isn't. The possibilities of conceiving a primary little one naturally after 40 are distant, by 45 nigh not possible.
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Lisa is amongst a rising variety of ladies of their 40s — one in six — who're childless. Some are in that place by selection, and I respect that call. Higher not be a mum than a reluctant one. However most girls do need to be moms. It's simply that they go away it too late. An Workplace For Nationwide Statistics report this week mentioned the explosion of job and life alternatives for ladies born within the Sixties and Seventies has led to a childless era, with 17 per cent with out a household of their very own.
I attempted for years to have youngsters, however was unable to grow to be pregnant. I don't cry once I cross babyGap within the Excessive Road any extra, however the unhappiness of by no means having the kid I longed for is a part of the warp and weft of my life, a tapestry I might by no means have chosen.
Girls like Lisa might consider their careers and fabulous life are extra vital than anything.
Nights out celebrating your newest modelling shoot or promotion might sound extra beguiling on the time than sleepless nights with a brand new child.
Till sooner or later you realise one thing is lacking. You watch mates get pregnant, see their wonderful, troublesome youngsters develop up and the enrichment they create to their mother and father' lives.
And also you marvel: was the profession ladder actually extra rewarding than a toddler's climbing body? Judging by Lisa's determination to seem within the tawdry TV jungle present, nearly definitely not.
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At 55, Carol's wanting Ab Fab
Former PR guru Lynne Franks, inspiration for Ab Fab's Edina, has salutary recommendation for Carol Vorderman.
'Why would a very smart, middle-aged lady endure beauty procedures to freeze her face . . . and so publicly flick her hair and flash her buxom bosom?'
A quick perusal of social media would possibly supply a clue. Carol is the UK's most lusted-after lady over 50. She's additionally 'bonding' with jungle mate Joel Dommett, 30.
Carol is proof that even at 55, you will be totally fascinating — one thing that wizened previous Lynne Franks can solely dream of.
Feminists applauded Hillary Clinton's first speech since dropping the election.
With out a scrap of make-up and looking out exhausted, she mentioned she didn't even need to go away the home, preferring to twist up on the couch with ebook and her canine.
So Invoice got here in helpful in spite of everything.
Trying no older than when JR used to knock her about on Dallas within the Eighties, Linda Grey is to star in C4's Hollyoaks.
'I'm 76 and really feel superb — perhaps higher than I did once I was youthful,' she says. It's a must to admire a gal who can go from 90 million viewers on Dallas to 900,000 on Hollyoaks, and nonetheless smile via the Botox.
Coming clear about showbiz's worst-kept secret, Carrie Fisher reveals particulars of her affair with Star Wars co-star Harrison Ford
Lastly coming clear about showbiz's worst-kept secret, Carrie Fisher reveals particulars of her affair with Star Wars co-star Harrison Ford.
She was 19, he was 33 and a married father of two. The affair lasted three months.
'It was an extended one-night stand,' she says.
'I used to be relieved when it ended. I didn't approve of myself.'
Nor, I think about, did Ford's then spouse, Mary Marquardt.
Fisher says she doesn't keep in mind a lot concerning the precise affair — so was Harrison that unhealthy in mattress?
Don't cry, children, Bambi's all proper
David Attenborough's sensationally profitable BBC sequence Planet Earth II has been criticised for being too merciless.
Mother and father are significantly exercised because it exhibits in graphic element the hunted lives of creatures resembling a child Nubian Ibex — assume Bambi — stranded on the sheer slopes of its mountain dwelling within the Israeli desert.
Why the fuss? Why don't they simply inform their youngsters what my mum all the time did after we watched exhibits like this collectively — that the second they stopped filming, the crew rescued Bambi and everybody lived fortunately ever after.
The dying want of a 14-year-old lady was that she shouldn't be 'buried underground', however that her physique be cryogenically frozen so, if a treatment for her most cancers was discovered, medical doctors might wake her up and he or she might reside once more. An exquisite dream and who might deny a toddler her final request?
But isn't there one thing deeply distasteful that, in a world of immediate options, a mercenary cryogenics business is deluding even youngsters into the idea that they will defy loss of life?
Disgrace on them for the tragic divisions their pipe goals deliver to grieving households.
It took 12 cops in a daybreak raid to arrest two feminine pensioners who tried to cease lime timber which have stood of their road for greater than a century from being minimize down.
Jenny Hockey, 70, and Freda Brayshaw, 71, had been arrested at 5am and held in a cell for eight hours. This within the week when a decide praised two Greenpeace activists for being 'principled' after defacing Nelson's Column and inflicting £35,000 harm — then allow them to stroll free.
Let's hope these tree-loving ladies obtain the identical leniency.
Forward of the launch of his new 'Not Prime Gear' TV sequence yesterday, Jeremy Clarkson claimed he was banned from boarding a flight by an airport employee
Jezza's flight of fancy
Forward of the launch of his new 'Not Prime Gear' TV sequence yesterday, Jeremy Clarkson claimed he was banned from boarding a flight by an airport employee, who mentioned: 'I'm from Argentina, so f*** off.'
Argentina was, after all, the nation Clarkson needed to flee when filming the final sequence of Prime Gear, after driving via it in a Porsche with the licence plate H982 FKL, which many took as a pointed reference to the 1982 Falklands Struggle.
It seems the airport employee was Spanish, not Argentinian, and the petrol-head oaf missed his flight as a result of he had lingered too lengthy within the lounge and bought to the departure gate too late.
Abusive, fibbing and aggressive . . . it appears to be like like now he's free from the restraints of the BBC, Clarkson is dealing with his personal PR. No less than nobody bought punched.
Gareth Southgate for England soccer boss? Why not? As a substitute of giving him a £three million-a-year deal, like his predecessor Sam Allardyce, who lasted simply 67 days and bought a £1 million payoff, he needs to be rewarded just for successful.
That method, the FA want by no means pay him something.
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