Isla Fisher: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

The question

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.

Isla Fisher

Australian actress

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I would have tried that anti-stretch mark cream during pregnancy.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2016 source ↗

Others on this question

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Joanne Froggatt English actress

I’d change my mindset and not be so hard on myself, and impart the knowledge that other people’s intentions aren’t always as well-meaning as my own.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2019 source ↗

Gregory Porter

The years of self-doubt.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2025 source ↗

Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser

Since hostile people still call me a former Playboy Bunny, even at 82, I probably shouldn’t have done that in my youth, even to write an exposé. And since a couple of times they’ve also referred to me as a former CIA agent, because I went to two Soviet-era communist youth festivals, I probably shouldn’t have done that, either. Yet if I hadn’t done both, I might have judged other people by such empty symbols, too.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗

Russell Howard British comedian and presenter