My daughter is the biggest gift; I’ve said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you’ve cracked it, and you’re on...

I know that I’ve overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I’m exhausted.

I’d never choose to turn the clock back.

We’re all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we’re growing up.

If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that’s fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.

On the beach, we women are at our most exposed and therefore most vulnerable. As any woman deserves to look and feel good, especially when she’s away on holiday, she needs swimwear that pays proper...

There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don’t know what drives someone to...

I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone’s taste.

A lot of people have said that I’ve got a voice that speaks to children. I think I’ve got a natural naivety to me. I’m childish.

Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month.

I am absolutely blessed and I’m very grateful for where I am today.

There’s always going to be that pressure when you’re in front of the camera. When you’re famous it’s just an extreme version of reality and there’s a pressure to look a certain way.

I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.

I won’t mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

I think I’ve really learned how important it is to empower women.

We are obsessed with image. I don’t think we should take it that seriously.

It’s important to learn to laugh at ourselves, don’t take life too seriously.

‘Spice Girls’ is about unifying the world – every age, every gender, everyone. It’s woman power, it’s an essence, a tribe.

I’ve always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I’m so much more balanced than I was.

I’m always coming up against scepticism in my life.

I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I’ll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her.

I love being on the beach – it’s my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it’s not working for yourself.

I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn’t start dating until I was in my 30s.

I’m done with trying to be perfect. A perfect body belongs to somebody else – and it’s not me.

I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’.

I think it’s unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

Celebrity has some amazing advantages, of course it does. You’re given an extraordinary power. It’s a door-opener. I might not have to queue for things.

I’m never getting too lonely because it’s the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

I’m much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.

I love Australian people.

I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m damn well gonna do it!

I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that’s all one can do – and just be really loving around her. I’ve tried...

I’m so supported, and I’m so privileged. So many women today are single parents; I don’t feel different. I think you get out of life what you put into it… and Bluebell was a beautiful...

I’ve been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

Being mean about other people isn’t on my radar.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

I do get scared, but I think – like it says in another book I’ve read – feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work...

I’ve got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis – it takes all the playfulness away.

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It’s much more intense.

Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn’t mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it’s on an individual basis.

I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows?

I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn’t dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.

The thing is, when I feel like I have to lose weight, the opposite happens. I remember stuffing loads of chocolate on the plane to the shoot, and I thought, ‘Why don’t you have the...

The truth sets you free. It’s a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It’s amazing.

When I’m scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.