well, I have to say, it was a shock.
When I was a newsreader my appearance was never discussed.
And I didn't even think about my legs, which were always behind a desk.
But when I moved to GMTV my appearance became front page news.
Suddenly every newspaper in the country had something to say about my legs, and none of it was very flattering
I know that image matters.
If you’re in the public eyes you have to took smart and neat.
Viewers don’t want to see untidy clothes and hair.
Image is important, but isn’t everything.
In all the newspaper articles about the new breakfast programme, nobody mentioned the programme’s content or information.
They all just criticized my appearance.
It was so trivial.
I was unhappy on the new programme right from the start, although I stayed longer than my male co-presenter.
We both felt uncomfortable with our artificial images.
Then finally I couldn’t do it any more, either.
I just wasn’t being myself and it showed.
So I left, too.
I’m starting a new job soon as the presenter of a programme called Fantastic Facts, and I feel very good about it.
I’ll have to look good, of course, but I won’t have to wear “sexy” clothes and smile all the time.
I’ll be able to choose my own clothes and my own hairstyle.
I’ll be able to be myself.
Then the viewers will be able to concentrate on the content of the programme, not on me.