"I'm slim for professional reasons, and I work at it. I really want to continue working. There aren't..." — Marie Helvin

Even in the early Eighties, when I was one of the most successful models in Britain, I didn't really have a voice. Time after time, when I should have spoken up, I simply walked away.

My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.

I wasn't interested in having children of my own. I know what would have happened - I'd have been left at home to look after the kids, and my career would have been over while my husband travelled the world.

But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother.