What's the best bit on your personality CV?
My sense of humour. I can find the smallest things funny, even in the darkest of situations.
And the worst?
Again, my sense of humour, as I can often laugh at misfortune. At a wedding recently, nob
ody warned me that the vicar had a speech impediment and I was laughing so hard tears were running down my face. I was asked to leave.
What are your earliest memories?
I was brought up in Jakarta, so my earliest memories are of sitting on a beach in Indonesia, watching smoke drift from Krakatoa.
Describe yourself as food/car/drink.
Iíd be dulce de leche ice-cream, a Martini cocktail and an Aston Martin car, because it's classic and well-built.
How do you stay in love?
By communicating. I donít see how a relationship can survive if you canít do that.
What keeps you up at night?
My unconscious mind trying to make sense of the day.
Who or what makes you laugh?
Anything can make me laugh, laughter is what life is all about.
Who's your biggest influence?
My children. I had them young and all the hard work I do is for them.
What object would you save in a fire?
My jeans. I live in them.
What was your lifeís main turning point?
The loss of my own father and then the loss of the father of my kids.
Who would play you in a film of your life?
Uma Thurman. We share the same hairdresser, Sam McKnight, and he always tells me that we're very similar in background and outlook. Also, I think we share the same look.
Which song is the soundtrack to your life?
Non, Je ne Regrette Rien by Edith Piaf.
Tell us about your first date?
I was 15-years-old and it was with a boy who was a jockey. He couldnít reach me to kiss me, so had to stand on a step. It was embarrassing.
If you could meet any famous person who would it be, and why?
Jesus, to find out what he was really like.
Perfect Sunday?
Iíd stay in bed with the papers, drink a Starbucks and have my children around me.
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