Fearne Cotton

Or even if it's in a sort of competitive sense with work, they're doing better than me or whatever.

Everybody is lugging around some shit.

And I think, you know, I certainly tried to tackle that in my book, Likeable, assuming that if I were perfect, not only expressing perfection to other people, but if I somehow felt like and I've done everything I can to be perfect, then people will like me.

And obviously there's no such thing for a star.

It's exhausting.

And actually the best way of tackling it is to become comfortable with the things that, you know,

That's a weakness of mine.

That's, you know, not my strength or something that is, you know, a particularly shiny part of my existence.

And also these are the places and the times where I've really messed up and it's all right, but it's quite hard to get there.

What's been your own sort of journey with having acceptance around the parts of yourself or your life that you don't like?

Is that because I've done that many times?

I know other people will have and people outside of the public eye will have done that on a level.

Are we going, I need to see if there's some shitty comments here because they've seen through the act or we're looking for the bit that...

maybe finds getting feedback difficult or even somebody complaining.

I don't know, it could be a friend having an issue with you or a neighbour's complained about something, whatever it might be.

That can be a tricky or an awkward or very confronting thing to deal with.

I mean, again, when I was doing the publicity for this book, I decided I was by no means forced into this to read some mean tweets about me.

Okay.

And they were quite personal and I was sort of dreading it, but I thought this is going to be an interesting exercise because once I've read them, I've read them and I will realize I'm just sat here still and I'm fine.

So I read them privately at first at home.