{"id":31598,"date":"2019-06-16T12:41:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T11:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=31598"},"modified":"2019-06-16T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T11:47:07","slug":"daily-mail-toyah-my-life-through-a-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/daily-mail-toyah-my-life-through-a-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Mail: Toyah &#8211; My Life Through A Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-7129533\/My-life-lens-Singer-actress-Toyah-Willcox.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-7129533\/my-life-lens-singer-actress-toyah-willcox.html noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31606 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/dailymail19b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a>My life through a lens: Singer and actress Toyah Willcox, 61, reveals the stories behind her favourite snaps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Celebrities share the stories behind their favourite photographs. This week it\u2019s singer and actress Toyah Willcox, 61<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1960:<\/strong> I love this picture of me at home in Birmingham. I\u2019m naturally bossy and independent, and even then, aged about two, I had attitude. I never identified with being female and would physically fight my mother, Barbara, if she tried to put dresses on me. I wanted to play war and used to climb mountains and jump off cliffs. I was always hurting myself by doing idiotic things, which upset Mum a lot<\/p>\n<p><strong>1978:<\/strong> When I auditioned for the part of Bessie Watty in the film The Corn Is Green, I hid my bright-pink punk hair under a wig. But when I was cast and returned without it, the director wasn\u2019t best pleased. Katharine Hepburn was the film\u2019s main star. She would run her fingers through my hair and say, \u2018I wish I could have done this at your age.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading, and see some great photos, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-7129533\/My-life-lens-Singer-actress-Toyah-Willcox.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My life through a lens: Singer and actress Toyah Willcox, 61, reveals the stories behind her favourite snaps Celebrities share the stories behind their favourite photographs. This week it\u2019s singer and actress Toyah Willcox, 61 1960: I love this picture of me at home in Birmingham. I\u2019m naturally bossy and independent, and even then, aged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,27],"tags":[683,2231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31607,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31598\/revisions\/31607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}