A very expensive watch. I can’t tell you what it is – I’ll get robbed.

Gender-affirming surgery. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not widely available on the NHS and a lot of it you have to pay for yourself.

A table that used to belong to David Bowie: it was £13,000.

A holiday in New York for my son Arran’s 18th.

People who can’t hear other points of view. Absolute certainty always scares me a little.

At a fashion show after-party in New York in 2004, my friend dared me to push her into the pool. I did, and you’ve never heard laughter die so quickly.

The summer of 1997. My husband, who is an American, gave up everything to come and live with me in Edinburgh when we were students, and we were so skint but we had so much fun.

My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.

To my younger self. I was incredibly self-loathing and self-doubting, and I’m still undoing that damage 30 years later.

When I was about 18, I worked on the chicken counter in a large supermarket, and every morning I had to pierce 64 birds on to industrial skewers to load up the rotisserie. That was very grim.