Francesca Martinez: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Francesca Martinez said elsewhere, not written here

My all-girls’ high school. I hated it. Large groups of teenage girls aren’t known for their empathy and kindness. It was a shock to realise that people viewed me as uncool because of the way my body worked.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 March 2020 source ↗

Others on this question

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Jessica Hynes British actress and writer

I wouldn’t have drunk alcohol.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 August 2016 source ↗

Melanie Blatt English singer

I would put the brain that I have now into my 20-year-old body.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2023 source ↗

Carlos Acosta Cuban ballet dancer

The time I told my father I hated him, causing him a lot of pain. He passed away six years ago, and my mother eight years ago.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 September 2018 source ↗

Rupert Graves English actor

I’d edit out all my gauche incomprehension.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 January 2015 source ↗