“Once, when I was about eight, my mum handed me a sandwich, and I remarked: 'What are those weird things on your hands?' I was referring to the visible pores, which were such a contrast to my own alabaster-smooth skin. My mum looked mortified, while my grandma laughed and said: 'They're nothing - look at mine!'”

English broadcaster and journalist

Kate Garraway, born Kathryn Mary Draper Garraway, is an English broadcaster and journalist. She worked in television news in the 1990s and became a familiar face on British breakfast programming. She was a journalist for ITV News Central and later co-presented ITV News Meridian. From 2000 to 2010, she co-presented GMTV. She now presents Mid Mornings with Kate Garraway on Smooth Radio and serves as newsreader and co-anchor of Good Morning Britain.