Single Mums Do Have Brains.

Carol Vorderman who is a single mum proves that. Carol was also raised by her mum single headedly for ten years before she remarried.  Carol. Once famous for being on Countdown,  has found a level of contentment in her life. She has written her autobiography, It All Counts, which has put her life in the same kind of order that she puts hard sums. And not being on the telly so much has meant she’s been able to spend more time with her kids.

Carol admits she was a workaholic in her 20s and 30s but she enjoyed being successful and earning lots of money.

“All those things are fantastic but it takes its toll,” she admitted.

“I live in Bristol now and all my friends are not famous – they are just lovely people. You meet people who are contented and it’s not about material things.

“I’m very lucky. I’ve earned a lot money and I’m worth a lot of money.

“But it’s not about that, it’s about having time with the kids.

“We laugh in our house all the time. And it’s all about that really, I think, for me.

“Some women are brave enough to say, ‘No, I’m contented with this’. They’re not striving all the time and you can learn from them. They’re not looking at pictures in the newspaper and feeling bitterness or envy about somebody who is looking fantastic.

“They go, ‘Yeah, doesn’t she look fantastic?’ or, ‘Doesn’t he look great?’ or, ‘Haven’t they done well?’. That gives you contentment.”

She has been writing It All Counts, which is out next month, and also setting up an internet project for kids called The Maths Factor (www.themathsfactor.com).

But she’s a little unhappy with the title of her book.

“It wasn’t my idea,” she said. “I refused lots of other choices with the word count in them but we compromised on It All Counts.”

Carol also struggled to find images for the book, admitting her mum rarely took pictures of her growing up.

She added: “From the day I was born to about the age of 20, I have probably 10 photographs – that’s it.

“I also didn’t have a single photograph of my stepfather. There was one of my father and two of me and my mum.”

Carol was born in Bedford, the youngest of three children. Her dad, Anton, was Dutch and her mum, Jean, Welsh.

But they broke up three weeks after Carol was born and she was raised in Prestatyn, north Wales, until her mum remarried an Italian when she was 10.

She reckons having a camera wasn’t on the list of essentials as her mum struggled doing four jobs and bringing up three children.

A single mum herself, Carol still looks amazing and grabbed headlines last year when she wore an Alexander McQueen dress first showcased by Victoria Beckham.

Carol is currently planning her 50^th Birthday party and you can read the full article over at The Daily Record.

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