{"id":36129,"date":"2021-08-20T13:59:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=36129"},"modified":"2021-08-20T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:59:35","slug":"readers-digest-toyah-willcox-i-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/readers-digest-toyah-willcox-i-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader&#8217;s Digest: Toyah Willcox: I Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readersdigest.co.uk\/culture\/celebrities\/toyah-willcox-i-remember\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.readersdigest.co.uk\/culture\/celebrities\/toyah-willcox-i-remember noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-36130 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/rdigest21a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><strong>Toyah Willcox is an English musician, actress and TV presenter. From fronting a band to releasing solo music, there is little that she hasn&#8217;t done across a four-decade career<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My childhood was definitely privileged.<\/strong> We had hot water, heating, food, we had our own home, and I went to a private school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Having a limp, dyslexia and a lisp.<\/strong> I wasn&#8217;t even aware of it. I was having a perfectly happy childhood until people pointed out that I had a physical difference to everyone else in the room. Then, when I was sitting my 11-plus people realised that I was not on the same page as everyone else because of dyslexia. Alan Sugar, Richard Branson\u2014you could name a thousand people who have exactly the same experience as me and we&#8217;re doing perfectly well. I have such a wonderful life. I have overcome so much.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t say that that specifically made me tougher. What made me tougher was being the only woman in the music industry. My way of learning, my way of working, means that I have to just be a little bit ahead of everyone else. And I think any woman in acting or music would say, &#8220;I feel the same too.&#8221; You never arrive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readersdigest.co.uk\/culture\/celebrities\/toyah-willcox-i-remember\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Reader&#8217;s Digest<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah Willcox is an English musician, actress and TV presenter. From fronting a band to releasing solo music, there is little that she hasn&#8217;t done across a four-decade career My childhood was definitely privileged. We had hot water, heating, food, we had our own home, and I went to a private school. Having a limp, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,145,27],"tags":[2773],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36129"}],"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=36129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36131,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36129\/revisions\/36131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}