Geri Halliwell

“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 attention to comfort and function. And there should also be some thought put into value.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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 to give her confidence in who she is. I think she's all right in the confidence department.”

“I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!”