Beloved TV personality and author Fern Britton has opened up about the emotional challenges she faces as a single woman in her 60s thinking about the possibility of finding love after her second marriage ended . In a recent column she wrote for the Daily Mail, Fern reflected on what it feels like to be single again after three decades of married life. She opened up about the end of her first marriage to Clive Jones, who she shares children Grace, Harry and Jack with.
She reminisced: "When I had my daughter Grace, things weren't great at home with my first husband, who had to cope with me being unhappy in a way he couldn't possibly understand. He thought it was postnatal depression but I knew I was sad because our relationship was failing." Fern went on to discuss some of the difficulties she would face with a new relationship - and the former This Morning presenter didn't shy away from personal details.
Fern admitted: "I have wrinkles, wobbly thighs and bosoms that I roll up like a Swiss roll to tuck them in my bra. "Could I display all this to a new partner? I genuinely don't know. Although I see it as an important part of my repowering, I find the prospect of a new relationship terrifying as well as tempting.
" Fern continued to joke about how her body looks now, saying it could "do with a good iron or perhaps even better a steam press". Her sense of humour seems to mask a genuine concern about the vulnerabilites of showing herself - wrinkles, wobbly bits and all - to someon.