Today felt like the right moment to sit down and share something a little more personal. If you have been reading my blog for years, you will know that I have always existed somewhere between being extremely open and slightly guarded. In the early days of blogging, I definitely overshared. There are probably old posts floating around the internet that would make current me want to crawl underneath a weighted blanket and never emerge again.
But growing up online teaches you things. You learn boundaries. You learn that not every thought, heartbreak, or vulnerable moment needs to be uploaded in real time. Still, I never want this space to feel cold or distant either. So today felt like a good opportunity to share a few truths about me. Some are things you may already know, others are details I rarely speak about fully.
I Got Married at 24
I got married when I was 24, which some people reacted to as though I had announced I was moving into the woods to churn my own butter and abandon modern civilisation entirely.
But honestly, after being together for eight years already, getting married felt incredibly natural to us. It never felt rushed or impulsive. We had already grown up together in so many ways. Of course, people immediately assumed there must be a baby involved because apparently society struggles to believe women sometimes simply want commitment without a dramatic plot twist attached to it. There was no secret pregnancy. I just loved him and wanted to build a life together properly.
I Work in Marketing
Outside of this site, I work as the head of marketing for a healthcare company, which still occasionally feels surreal considering I originally started there as an assistant fresh out of university.
I did not necessarily follow the most traditional route into my career, but I worked relentlessly and slowly climbed my way through it all. Marketing has always felt strangely instinctive to me because it combines creativity with strategy, which suits my brain perfectly. I genuinely love that no two days ever feel exactly the same, and honestly, there is still something deeply satisfying about seeing ideas transform into measurable results.
I Once Broke Both My Legs at the Same Time
When I was eight years old, I broke both of my legs simultaneously in an accident involving my dad’s new car.
Even writing that sentence still sounds slightly unbelievable. He did not realise I was behind the vehicle, and my legs became trapped between the car and a concrete wall. Every bone shattered. I spent months in casts followed by a wheelchair, and honestly, looking back now, I think it shaped my resilience more than I realised at the time. Childhood has a strange way of making even traumatic experiences feel oddly matter-of-fact once enough time passes.
I Have an Eidetic Memory
This is usually the fact people either find fascinating or think sounds entirely made up.
I have an eidetic memory, which essentially means I remember almost everything I see or read. Academically, it helped me enormously growing up and allowed me to complete my degree unusually young. But socially? It often made me feel quite isolated when I was younger because people tend to react strangely to anything they perceive as different. These days, though, I have stopped trying to minimise it and instead just appreciate it for the gift it genuinely is.
My Golden Retriever Is Basically My Emotional Support Animal
If you follow me anywhere online, you will already know about Martha because frankly, she features in my life with the frequency of a co-dependent sitcom roommate.
She is a golden retriever and genuinely one of the softest, most loving souls I have ever encountered. On difficult days, she somehow senses exactly when I need comfort and simply plants herself beside me like an emotional support cloud with fur. There is something incredibly grounding about an animal whose only concern is whether you are nearby and likely to share snacks.
I Struggle With My Mental Health
I have spoken openly about my mental health over the years because I never want people reading this site to feel alone in their own struggles.
I live with OCD, anxiety, and periods of depression, and while I manage them much better now than I once did, there are still moments where things become incredibly difficult. Therapy and medication changed my life massively, but beyond that, I think learning not to feel ashamed of needing support has been one of the biggest shifts for me emotionally. Mental health struggles do not make somebody weak. They simply make them human.
I’ve Always Found Male Friendships Easier
For reasons I still cannot fully explain, I have always naturally gravitated towards male friendships more easily.
Historically, women often misjudged me initially before eventually warming up once they got to know me properly. Meanwhile, male friendships generally felt more straightforward and less emotionally layered in ways I found easier to navigate growing up. It was never intentional or rebellious. It was simply the dynamic I naturally fell into from school onwards, and honestly, many of those friendships have remained some of the most stable and loyal in my life.
This Blog Is My Safe Space
Even though blogging eventually became part of my professional life, this space still feels incredibly personal to me.
Writing has always helped me process things emotionally. When life feels chaotic, stressful, or overwhelming, sitting down to write allows me to untangle my thoughts in a way almost nothing else does. Beyond that, the people who read this site genuinely mean so much to me. Knowing something I wrote resonated with somebody else somewhere in the world still feels incredibly surreal after all these years.
I First Worked With Vogue at 19
One of the most surreal moments of my career happened when I was only 19 years old and received an email asking me to contribute to Vogue.
At first, I genuinely assumed somebody was playing a very elaborate prank on me because surely that kind of thing does not happen to ordinary girls from Yorkshire sitting at office desks eating meal deals. But it was real. And honestly, seeing my work connected to something I had admired for so long remains one of the proudest and most bizarre moments of my professional life.
I’m Much More Frugal Than People Expect
Considering I regularly speak about luxury fashion, designer shoes, and handbags, people are often surprised by how financially cautious I actually am.
Growing up around financial stress left a permanent imprint on me. I save methodically, plan obsessively, and rarely purchase anything impulsively without thinking it through ten times first. I love beautiful things, absolutely, but I also deeply value financial security and stability because I know what life feels like without it. Luxury means very little to me if it comes attached to anxiety.
Final Thoughts
I think there is something strangely vulnerable about writing posts like this because they feel less polished and far more personal than many other things I share online. But at the same time, I never want this site to feel purely performative either. The people reading these posts are real people investing their time here, and I genuinely value that more than I can properly explain.
So hopefully this gave you a slightly clearer picture of the person sitting behind the screen typing all of this out with a cup of tea nearby and approximately seventeen tabs open at all times. And honestly, I would genuinely love to know something about you too because one of my favourite parts of blogging has always been the feeling that somewhere amongst all of this, real conversations are still happening.
