Today she lives an Instagram-friendly life many would envy, sharing a large comfortable home with her three beautiful children and Top Gear presenter husband Paddy McGuinness.
But, in Christine McGuinness's new autobiography A Beautiful Nightmare she details for the first time just how tough her poverty-ridden childhood truly was.
As a child in Halewood, Merseyside Christine, now 33, battled anorexia and social anxiety while dealing with bullying and sexual abuse – making the first few chapters of the book a really heartbreaking read.The Full Monty star began by revealing how as a child, her family were on the poverty line, living in a council flat with barely enough money for electricity and to have the heating on. "My childhood was a.
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