Belinda Carlisle
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Having a career that’s lasted 47 years, especially when I felt like an impostor for so many of them.
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Getting an A for my English A-level. I’m dyslexic; it was never detected and I was written off as scatty and lazy. This proved everyone wrong, including me.
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Being able to buy my parents a house.
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A miniature pet elephant, one that is no bigger than a guinea pig.
Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed. I had a hangover, and it was all a bit much.
A walk-on part for my mum in Les Misérables. It was in a charity auction. She always dreamed of being in a West End show.
Right now. Ask me again when my children are grown, and I’ll sob, “When they loved me more than that woman/man they’ve shacked up with.”
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