Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Susanna Reid - Page 2

I may have been through the pain of childbirth three times, but I'm incredibly nervous about having my upper ear pierced.

When I did lose weight, by the way, I did it because my doctor recommended it. My secret isn't a pill. I took individual steps to eat more healthily, cutting down on unhealthy snacking and the empty calories of alcohol.

At the heart of my family is a woman who has spent 60 years taking care of others. Nurse Grandma, as we affectionately call her - my mum Sue - is who everyone in our family calls when there's a cough that won't go, or a temperature that needs bringing down.

Reality show TV star is a familiar job, and to knock it would be the height of hypocrisy for someone like me who has made their career on television.

In my experience, there is more rivalry between male counterparts. Take ITV's Piers Morgan and Dan Walker, his BBC Breakfast double. The way they snipe at each other on Twitter makes me shudder. I would never speak about a colleague like that.

I'm all for making ourselves look good - as long as we feel good, too. Feeling under pressure to look the same means we've gone too far.

I don't credit diet pills for my weight loss. I would never flog any 'weight-loss' supplement.

I would never say no at a red-carpet event. It's part of the job. Without the viewers we are nothing, so a simple picture is hardly too much to ask.

The Victoria's Secret fashion shows? I've always detested them. Not only because they made me feel insanely jealous of the utter magnificence of the models, but also because I couldn't stop myself falling for the fantasy.

For a fan, a selfie takes just a moment and those who dare to ask, win. But for the celeb, the seconds can add up to never having a moment to themselves.

To be fair, I have no idea what my natural hair colour is any more - and I have no intention of finding out after 20 years of dedicated dyeing. I go to a local salon every few weeks to have my roots done when they have barely emerged.

Losing weight should be done for health, not because a star claims to have a magic product or formula.

Instead of respecting nurses, we have started blaming them for problems they don't create. And, in doing so, we are making everyone less safe.

When my boys were little and food wasn't easily delivered via an app, the restaurant at the end of the road was my saviour.

'Fake' used to be an insult, but now it's a badge of honour, with hair extensions, tans and nails all artificial, but looking fabulous.

Cats are notoriously fickle. Regular feeding at a different house might be enough to tempt them away, insensitive to your own feelings of attachment.

Is it just me, or did 2019 feel like an endless fight? Tension over Brexit and climate-change protests trickled down into our everyday lives, putting pressure on every relationship.

Normally, I have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the festive spirit. I'm not a Scrooge. But when I was growing up, Christmas didn't begin until mid-December.

From the outside, it looks like I've got my life sorted, but all too often I find myself awake at night, worrying about keeping all those spinning plates in the air.

I'm a proud ex-BBC employee, but its flip-flop over presenter Naga Munchetty - first censured for sharing her experience of racism, then absolved when the decision caused uproar - doesn't look good.

But for women - and, yes, this is strictly applicable to females - grey hair is still a rarity, especially if you're in the public eye.

Let's face it, staying at home has its appeal. The modern family set-up with both parents working is fraught with challenges most of us will have experienced.

I do think the glitz of reality stars and social media is changing our society. At 20, I barely wore make-up and rarely visited a hairdresser.

My natural curviness means I will never be considered lean. I can be healthy, but lean - no.

Women of my generation aren't becoming more conservative as we get older. On the contrary, we're less concerned about what people think.

Women telling men to step out of roles so they can step into them isn't going to endear people to feminism. Neither is telling women they are betraying feminism by enjoying the pleasures of being a traditional housewife.

My mum is proud to have been a nurse. At the beginning, she worked a basic 44-hour week, split shifts, night shifts and rarely had a weekend off.

I won't hold back from sharing my opinions. But I'll also be fair, taking on the topics of the day with a positive, no-nonsense attitude - and a great sense of fun.

Too few nurses puts patients at risk. It also risks the mental and physical health of the nurses we do have, as the fewer staff there are on a ward, the harder it gets to pick up the pieces.

My constant advice to my family - 'hopes high, expectations low' - is based on the idea that we can try our best to be perfect, but sometimes good enough has to be good enough.

And the more goals we set, the more we ramp ourselves up into bouncing coffee beans of caffeinated fury, ready to fly off the handle at the slightest trigger.

Sure, I might come across as an extrovert on television, but I am not a particularly gregarious person.

For many women, adopting a traditional full-time domestic role would be unthinkable. But if being at home and looking after your husband works for you, I'm behind you.

But feminism isn't served by simply promoting women over men. The winner needs to be the best candidate for the job, not the best candidate of a certain gender.

I don't get time to read often - the last hour before bed is somehow always spent clearing up the day's mess instead.

After chatting happily to people all morning in my professional life, I prefer to spend quiet nights in, punctuated only by the occasional grunted demand for food from a passing teenager.

Many people don't want to read the news on a phone. I'm the same, and so is my dad, for whom I'm trying to organise a daily newspaper delivery.

Behind the glossy hair and smart dresses you see on TV, this is who I am: a busy working mum like any other.