After doing kid's television on CBBC and messing around with eight and nine year olds, there was a period of three years in the middle of that when I wasn't doing anything. I was working as a receptionist and in a pub; I was a cleaner and all sorts of things. All life has its ups and downs.

Holly Willoughby

Work Life Years

It is a wrench when you have to go back to work after maternity leave, whether you've had two months or over a year.

Holly Willoughby

Work You Year

If I do something, I commit. Otherwise you spread yourself too thin.

Holly Willoughby

Yourself Yours Your

I have always been really scared of trousers, they aren't flattering.

Holly Willoughby

Car Ways Way

I love being pregnant, I love giving birth, I love all that, it's like wearing a wedding dress, I don't want that all to be over.

Holly Willoughby

Wedding Love Wed

You can take the stress out of Christmas by trying to be as organised as you possibly can.

Holly Willoughby

Christmas You Yin

My favourite place in the world is home.

Holly Willoughby

Home World T

When I'm home, I never take work calls. If I'm at work, I work; if I'm home that's it, I'm home.

Holly Willoughby

Work Home Take

I think the fact that we don't usually see 'normal' sized women on television has something to do with the reaction I had. I am quite tall - I am 5ft 8in and a definite size 12 - but you know this whole debate about my revealing too much flesh on TV has been blown out of proportion.

Holly Willoughby

Women Men You

I'm sorry, I just don't want to be a part of this conspiracy to make women feel pressured about their bodies.

Holly Willoughby

Women Men Art

My first day of 'This Morning' was pretty wow, and I think that was just because it was a big huge deal for me. I'd always said 'This Morning' was my dream job so to actually get it and actually be standing there and saying 'Hello, welcome to 'This Morning'... ' that was a big moment.

Holly Willoughby

Morning Mom Men

I Iike listening to people talking. I'm really interested in people's lives and what makes us work, what makes us weak, at times, and things that can make us stronger.

Holly Willoughby

Work Time Weak

I'm a big fan of John Nettles.

Holly Willoughby

T Oh Net

I love an elasticated waistband on holiday. I look like the before photo of a makeover. I don't care and no one can see me.

Holly Willoughby

Love Car Waist

I've been known to use white noise during fussy times as well as to help a baby sleep.

Holly Willoughby

Time White Well

There's a certain section of the public who spot me in the street but it's never horrible. I'm not a soap villain who gets spat at.

Holly Willoughby

Who Villain Villa

I'm not afraid of how I look in the mirror.

Holly Willoughby

T Raid OK

With any body shape it's important to buy the right size and not be dictated to by size you think you are. Try on a bigger and a smaller size in the shop and see what fits visually. If you do have to go up a size, cut the label out, it's just a number!

Holly Willoughby

You Wit Visual

People think I work a lot more than I do. I think because you're in people's living rooms every day they're like: 'Oh my God, you're always on the telly,' but it's like, 'Yeah but you always have to go to work every day nine till five whereas I finish at 12:30 P.M. and then I'm home.'

Holly Willoughby

Work Home God

When I'm interviewing on the sofa for 'This Morning' it just feels like an intimate chat. Yes, there can be a producer talking through your earpiece but it all becomes second nature after a while.

Holly Willoughby

Nature Morning Your

I really like Charlotte Tilbury and Burt's Bees lipsticks - so moisturising!

Holly Willoughby

Tick T Stick

I was first spotted for a modeling career and there's no talking involved in that - the thought of doing any sort of public speaking at that time would have terrified me. So that was something I sort of had to learn.

Holly Willoughby

Skinny jeans don't work on someone, like me, who's a size 12 and has got child-bearing hips.

Holly Willoughby

I always notice a difference in my skin when I drink lots of water and, of course, get plenty of sleep!

Holly Willoughby

When I first started in telly, I had a lot of negative comments... but then I suddenly realised I couldn't be anyone else and actually the bits where I mess up or I'm just me seem to be the things that work.

Holly Willoughby

Without sounding like a right idiot, my mum and my dad are my role models. They devoted everything to my sister and me - and stayed together through everything. It wasn't because they never argued - of course they did - but they worked through it and made their marriage work.

Holly Willoughby

I actually avoid talking about my diet and exercise regime because I have interviewed so many people affected by eating disorders and I know that some people in chat rooms can really fixate on other people's diets. I just can't contribute to that.

Holly Willoughby

I'm quite active and I try not to let the way I look be the main focus because it's not the most important thing.

Holly Willoughby

I was going to university to study psychology and my big ambition in life was to open treatment rooms for psychotherapy.

Holly Willoughby

I know how to dress my figure, so I stay looking good by wearing the right clothes.

Holly Willoughby

You wouldn't expect it to look at him, but in a life-threatening situation you should always turn to Phillip Schofield. On a desert island he would be perfect. Phil is very practical and would build you an amazing shack as well as keep you entertained with all his hundreds of stories.

Holly Willoughby

After doing kid's television on CBBC and messing around with eight and nine year olds, there was a period of three years in the middle of that when I wasn't doing anything. I was working as a receptionist and in a pub; I was a cleaner and all sorts of things. All life has its ups and downs.

Holly Willoughby

I love cooking and having people over and it means you don't have to get a babysitter.

Holly Willoughby

I like to let my skin breath as much as possible on my days off, when I don't have to wear full or heavy make-up. So I just apply it as a moisturiser, knowing that it's going to even out my skin tone and give me SPF 15 coverage, too.

Holly Willoughby

I like an eyeshadow stick because I can just wallop it on, smudge it in and you're done!

Holly Willoughby

Everybody thinks I wear fake tan but I hate fake tan! Never been able to get on with it. I'm always linked to different fake tan brands and it's nonsense because I've probably had three fake tans in my life.

Holly Willoughby

Everybody knows what leads to a healthy lifestyle, but it's not up to me to give you a blow-by-blow account of what I've eaten that day. It's not helpful, and it's not what's important.

Holly Willoughby

Sometimes when you see clothes online you don't quite believe those clothes: you think they've been airbrushed. On 'This Morning,' it's a really good opportunity to see how clothes work in real life.

Holly Willoughby

I'm very much, get to work, do my job, go home.

Holly Willoughby

There was no other training ground like kids' telly for becoming a TV presenter.

Holly Willoughby

I don't think I'm any different on 'Celebrity Juice' or daytime telly. It's what's going on around me that's different. I don't suddenly become all outrageous and rude on 'Celebrity Juice.'

Holly Willoughby

On 'This Morning' we've got a really good team of people - everyone knows their jobs inside out so you can really just rely on something to be done.

Holly Willoughby

People will always see things that they want to see but, ultimately, 'Celebrity Juice' is about three mates having an absolute laugh.

Holly Willoughby

I can't stand the assumption that I'm blonde and a bit stupid.

Holly Willoughby

I was an imaginative kid. My sister needed entertaining, whereas I was the one under the table playing with a bit of fluff on the carpet. I was the sort of child who would spend time rolling up balls of all different kinds of fluff and that would be my little family.

Holly Willoughby

My friends were amazed that I became a TV presenter. I was not a big talker at school - I never liked people seeing my braces, so I walked around with my sleeves pulled over my hands and my hands over my mouth in case anybody saw me smiling.

Holly Willoughby

Being a mum can be utterly overwhelming.

Holly Willoughby

I don't think you should want everything at work, because home life is so important, and much more nourishing for your soul. One day work will end.

Holly Willoughby

I mean, something has to give. You can have it all at work, you can have it all at home, but you can't have it all completely combined.

Holly Willoughby

That's what a family is, isn't it? Making space and time for one another.

Holly Willoughby

There is a lot of opportunity - wonderful, amazing things, like a dream. But I've got a family, and it's not just about my dreams.

Holly Willoughby