Woman & Home

‘I embrace being afraid, it can be really thrilling!’

You’re the first one to do anything so you have to jump into the darkness, but I quite enjoy that. It’s like acting, you never know what is going to surprise you, so it’s been a good training ground. Having two younger siblings also made it easier to fly the nest and because you’re the ‘experiment’ if it goes

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