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I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

I was not an attractive child.

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

My childhood lacked affection and ambience.

I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.

In my late 30s, I flirted with the idea of having a child without necessarily being in a steady relationship. But I've never had a strong maternal urge, and then I got cancer of the womb - luckily caught at an early stage - so that put paid to that.

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.