Francesca Martinez
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My relationship.
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What is the worst job you have done?
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Raising awareness of ethical and environmental issues in the clothing industry. I think I was the original whistleblower within fashion.
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Una Stubbs
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Bringing up my three sons.
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Finding something that I love doing and getting paid for it.
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Creating jobs and opportunities for thousands of people.
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View profile →Camping with my parents in the south of France. We went every year with the beautiful bell tent they made on a sewing machine. We even had a lavatory tent which was fabulous except, one day, it blew away with my father in it.
A hydrogen-powered private jet for me and my dog. We’d be zero carbon dioxide emissions, so could go anywhere we liked.
Boarding school. It was horrible.
Threat of nuclear war, Iran/US situation, Syria, everything. I take sleeping pills.
Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.
To my parents, for being such a bitch.
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