Jennifer Hudson
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I wouldn’t change a thing. Every experience is a lesson learned.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.
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Bill Bryson
American-British author
Nothing. It’s too risky. What if you eliminated a misjudged situation from your life and it turned out that one of your children wasn’t born, or you failed to meet your partner?
Katharine Hamnett
English fashion designer
Boarding school. It was horrible.
Kim Gordon
American musician and artist
I wouldn’t care so much what people thought.
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View profile →When I found out that I was having my baby. They told me I was having a little girl and I named it Elizabeth. Then, when the baby was born it was my beautiful boy, Mark.
In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
Getting the job on Strictly at the age of 56.
Dancing was in my bones from when I started ballet at two.
People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
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