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Your support makes all the difference.Apprentice star Karren Brady has revealed how a potentially fatal illness changed her life forever.
The businesswoman was treated for a brain aneurysm seven years ago.
She told Hello! Magazine: "I would never have done The Apprentice had I not gone through the experience.
"It made me realise that life is short - and fun - and that you should try new things. I really believe in life-long learning. The moment you think you know it all is when you don't know anything at all."
Her husband Paul said the illness changed his wife considerably.
He said: "It made her softer and she's less likely to get so fraught about the unimportant things that used to wind her up".
Brady, who started her working life at Saatchi & Saatchi when she was 18 and is currently vice-chairman at West Ham United, said she now regrets going back to work within days after giving birth to her daughter Sophia 17 years ago.
She said: "I regret that, but I didn't understand then.
"In those days, there was no such thing as flexible working or a work-life balance. It is absolutely essential that you take time off when you have a family. I just didn't know that then and nobody told me that it was okay. I was still trying to prove myself so I carried on working."
Brady said she now liked nothing more than staying at home and cooking for her family.
She said: "We rarely go out and I love to cook. We do a lot of Friday night dinners and Sunday lunches. A slow-roast lamb is my speciality, or a king prawn curry on a Saturday night."
:: Read the full article in Hello! magazine, out now
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