I Wrapped My Poor Baby in a Towel, Took a Large Spoon From the Kitchen and Walked to the Park.Then I Buried My Little Boy ; Kim Woodburn Found Fame As the Outspoken Star of the Tv Series How Clean Is Your House? But Beneath Her Brash Exterior Lies a Deep Psychological Scar. In This Harrowing Account From Her Sensational Autobiography, She Reveals for the First Time the Dark Secret That Blighted Her Life

Mail on Sunday › August 14, 2006

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People sometimes ask how I know I'm famous and I always say the same thing: I knew it when Oprah Winfrey devoted a whole show to my co-presenter Aggie MacKenzie and me. Our television programme How Clean Is Your House?, which has enjoyed huge success in Britain, had also become a hit in the United States.

I will never forget that moment.I'm not fazed by being on television and I've now appeared on countless chat shows, but appearing on Oprah's show was something special. It just seemed so ridiculous that a couple of years earlier I had been earning Pounds 1,000 a month working as a housekeeper,and now here I was sitting beside one of the most famous women in the world being beamed into millions of homes across America.

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I Wrapped My Poor Baby in a Towel, Took a Large Spoon From the Kitchen and Walked to the Park.Then I Buried My Little Boy ; Kim Woodburn Found Fame As the Outspoken Star of the Tv Series How Clean Is Your House? But Beneath Her Brash Exterior Lies a Deep Psychological Scar. In This Harrowing Account From Her Sensational Autobiography, She Reveals for the First Time the Dark Secret That Blighted Her Life

Aggie and I have come a long way in a short time. Since our first series was screened on Channel 4 in 2003, our salaries have soared, our books have become bestsellers and we get well rewarded for appearing in advertisement campaigns in Britain and America.

With the money that I've earned, I've been able to buy a pretty house in Surrey and a nice car. My beloved second husband, Peter, and I can afford to go on fantastic holidays. After a lifetime of having to count the pennies, it seems incredible that my life could turn around so quickly.

No one has the right to say they are due a bit of good luck, but I can't help feeling someone saw fit to smile on me at last.What millions of people who see me on television can't possibly know is that I have had a very hard time.

And, in partic...

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