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I like a massage wherever I am in the world.
When I’m doing TV shows, I am often in really weird positions – crawling through tombs or hanging off the edges of ancient sites. So a massage is my treat to myself. I will spend anything from £35 to £135. I have about four a year.

I have always been careful with money and lived within my means. I’ve not had a credit card, nor spent more than what I have. I was brought up to think that if work came along I was lucky to have it. So all my life I have worked six or seven days a week. 

They grew up during the war and believed in being self-sufficient.
They would grow vegetables and bake their own bread. My father, in particular, never took anything for granted. He did not know his father and he provided for himself from the age of 15 when his mother died. So I was brought up with a sense that money should never be wasted. 

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Also, I work hard to earn my money and I like to know what I’m spending it on. Somehow, putting my money out into the big investment world doesn’t feel like what I want to do with it. I want to see what I’m buying. 

I like a massage wherever I am in the world.
When I’m doing TV shows, I am often in really weird positions – crawling through tombs or hanging off the edges of ancient sites. So a massage is my treat to myself. I will spend anything from £35 to £135. I have about four a year.

The 33-year-old Brazillian model and columnist is the daughter of three-time F1 world champion Nelson Piquet and ex-girlfriend of former-F1 driver Daniil Kvyat, who she shares a two-year-old daughter with, Penelope Kvyat. 

The 54-year-old academic and broadcaster told Donna Ferguson she has never owned a credit card, nor made any major mistakes with money.
But she is prepared to spend £135 on a massage as a treat because of the ‘weird positions’ she often finds herself in, crawling through tombs while filming at historic sites.

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The 37-year-old also revealed how she has personally seen the disastrous effects such procedures can have when they go wrong, including the case of one 15-year-old girl who had fillers and ‘her lips blew up’.

When I was doing my academic research before I became a TV historian, I would also teach and lecture.
But that was never a problem for me because I love what I do. I have always managed to make my expenditure meet what I earn.

The Conservative MP for Sevenoaks – who has been working with Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries on the dangers of social media in the Online Safety Bill – has already successfully introduced a private member’s Bill to ban cosmetic Botox and fillers for under-18s. 

It was a stretch for us at the time. Obviously, it is worth a lot more now, but I have no idea how much. I don’t even want to think about it. It’s the best money decision I have ever made because it has meant my husband and I have had a secure family home in which to bring up our kids.
We’ll probably end up being taken out of there feet first.

‘The person doing it does not need to be qualified or licensed in any way.
They don’t need to be insured. The complications of it can be absolutely awful – blindness, necrosis or rotting tissue, the fillers moving around the face.

I started during lockdown. A bit late, some would say given my age, but at least I’ve started. In the past, my income has been unpredictable and it has not been easy for me to plan ahead. It always felt like a welcome surprise when money came in. Also, I had other financial priorities.

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I bought that white jacket when I was about 30 because I suddenly thought, this is ridiculous, I’ve got to sometimes buy new clothes.
The first time I wore the jacket was for the wrap party of the TV series I’d been doing. A colleague fell over and cut her wrist on a glass and I took her to hospital. She was fine, but there was a lot of blood and my jacket was ruined. I took that incident as a sign that I shouldn’t have bought it.

I had a deal for two books – one on Helen of Troy and the other on Socrates. I also did three television series in that year. Overall, I think I earned £75,000. But I was working at least 80 hours a week. My kids called my books ‘the treacherous books’ because they hated the fact that the door of my study was closed when I was writing.