India Part III / The one with new friends. And an extortion racketI arrived back in Mumbai just after 5pm. The late afternoon light had created a soft haze across the city and the penetrating sound of ca...
India Part II / The one where I set off aloneI could hear a voice coming through the carriage. Opening one eye I saw a young boy walking through the train with a metal container stra...
India Part I / The one where I flew to India with a complete strangerTwo weeks after meeting, Charles and I were stood side by side at Gatwick airport ready to board our fight to India. It was December and ...
The one where my TV and film career ended Through a chance meeting, I had landed a job as an entertainment reporter. Janet Street Porter had been tasked with creating a new channe...
New York part III / The one where I leftPol had met her now-husband on a website matching beautiful young things to older successful men. He had singled her out, bombarding her w...
New York part II / The one where it all became clearSensing Pol’s aggravation, the staff finally turned their attention away from the case, much to my relief, and we were shown to our room....
New York part I / The one with the high class escortI first met Pol in London. We had been introduced by one of the directors of a model agency and connected immediately. She was an ex-mode...
Beirut / The one with the corrupt model competitionI had been working at Premier Models for a few months when an email came through from a small production company in Lebanon. They were pl...
IVF, child loss and the unexpected love you find / British VogueI chose the first caesarean section of the day, just before 7am. I knew that if I had had the entire day to consider the operation to bri...
One year on from pregnancy loss / British VogueWhen the story of the night my baby died was published in Vogue, almost a year ago, I thought I would receive a few kind words from frien...
The pain of a late-term miscarriage / British VogueIn January 2017, I found out that I was pregnant. My husband and I had spent almost three years trying to conceive naturally, eager to gi...