A biography for Stacey Solomonhasn’t been written yet.
“If I'm on holiday I want pictures of all my kids, and they're not going to stand there waiting for me to find the right light.”
“I just have never been a drinker. No matter how much I try I just can't stand the taste of it or the way it makes me feel out of control, which is a no-go for an anxiety-ridden control freak like me.”
“Teachers are amazing.”
“What's disgraceful is that any Tom, Dick and Harry can open up a clinic and administer Botox.”
“Worse than finding out you're pregnant at 17 is having to tell your mum and dad.”
“Being a teenage mum and a single parent hasn't been easy but I wouldn't change it for the world.”
“I think the trauma of giving birth made me feel vulnerable and I wasn't invincible. Giving birth made me feel like I could die at any minute.”
“I am used to the low expectations people have of me: I have a bubbly personality, I smile a lot; I am very feminine.”
“I don't do any exercise on any day, to be honest with you.”
“Going through adolescence looking like a hormone experiment wasn't easy.”
“Being happy in a relationship isn't the be all and end all to feeling confident, but it definitely gives it another dimension.”
“I think we all need to accept that some people feel insecure about their body shape even when they're super slim.”
“You can't just be one thing all of the time.”
“I feel to really understand a video game, and whether it's right for your child, the only thing you can do is play it.”
“Nurturing and spending time and effort on what's happening underneath our exteriors is much more lucrative than spending a lifetime and shed load of money on your outside.”
“At my worst, I was so fearful of death I'd think about it for six hours a day.”
“I went to a Christian primary school where I felt included and no different to my peers.”
“Let's stop telling people from modest backgrounds that their education is capped at a certain level because of where they grew up. In fact I can attest to the fact that all this attitude does is put people off wanting to test the waters and apply, or push themselves towards higher education at all.”
“Sometimes, my anxiety is really dark. Like, I can't breathe, and feel like I'm having a heart attack.”
“My sister and I mistakenly watched 'American Pie' whilst still living at home with our parents.”