A biography for Nicola Robertshasn’t been written yet.
“Ultimately I'm quite a strong person.”
“People on radio and television started making nasty comments about me and I felt awful. Turning from a teenager into a woman is hard enough without dealing with snide comments.”
“Too much dairy and wheat gives me bad skin.”
“I was very young when I was using fake tan and I didn't care.”
“In any social situation I'd much rather be on the periphery of things than at the centre. When I'm standing at the edge I'm comfortable in my own skin. When I'm standing in the middle it's all confusion.”
“Fashion can really give you an identity if you're looking for one and I think the more people that know that, the less identity crises we'll have in the world.”
“Whenever I've been in the studio with Little Mix I've had the best time ever.”
“I want people to stop being so obsessed with the way they look.”
“I used to always wear jeans, T-shirts and tracksuits because I was narrow-minded about fashion.”
“I like my food and I eat a lot.”
“I'm just the biggest Kanye fan. I think he's a genius.”
“I used to do fake tanning because I was told that I didn't look great.”
“I'm frightened of the dark.”
“I've always been taunted about my skin.”
“I started looking at women like Lily Cole and Sophie Ellis Bextor - beautiful women with their pale skin, rather than looking at the run-of-the-mill, tanned, average lady.”
“I don't like the feeling of being unhappy. I don't like the feeling of being unsure about myself, or uncertain with where something's going - I would rather turn away. I just can't feel like that ever again. It's just horrible.”
“Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.”
“I used to use a sunbed after school. It wasn't a regular thing, but I'd go in wearing my uniform. No one ever stopped me. No one told me it was dangerous.”
“My nan's skin cancer was on her nose and had to have it removed a few times.”
“I do worry about getting skin cancer in the future - you only have to use a sunbed a handful of times.”