Koo Stark

The safest thing to do was get rid of the second breast. I just want to give myself the best chance possible to live.

I looked at my daughter's face and thought, it's lovely to be beautiful but better to be healthy.

I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.

It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.

I definitely would never go back to my 20s. The best is yet to come.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.