As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improved my condition.

As a young child, I suffered all sorts of digestive problems and was constantly under the weather.

But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling in between them like I'd done in their bed when I was three or four, snug and warm in the safest place in the world.

Instead I had Hell.

I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.