Nicola Roberts

I'm not gonna sit and pretend I'm hard as nails.

— Nicola Roberts

We had to struggle for what we've learned, but we're so thankful.

— Nicola Roberts

I do 100 squats while I brush my teeth.

— Nicola Roberts

I paint my own nails and only get my hair cut when it really needs it.

— Nicola Roberts

Being singled out as 'The Ugly One' led to depression.

— Nicola Roberts

Anyone of any age or background who loved pop music liked our songs.

— Nicola Roberts

For years I felt like the ugly one in Girls Aloud.

— Nicola Roberts

I'm not safe with fashion, and I haven't been for a long time.

— Nicola Roberts

In a way Girls Aloud were the first wave of modern celebrity. When we started out there were no camera phones clicking…

— Nicola Roberts

You spend so much time in a studio writing for other people, you forget you sing, you know?

— Nicola Roberts

I had a very narrow-minded view on what was pretty and what wasn't. I automatically thought that tanned was attractive.

— Nicola Roberts

I'd make a good psychiatrist. I can work people out very easily and very quickly. I've been like that since childhood.

— Nicola Roberts

We were put together by the public, they voted for us to be in the band. So we were very much the…

— Nicola Roberts

I do worry about getting skin cancer in the future - you only have to use a sunbed a handful of times.

— Nicola Roberts

People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.

— Nicola Roberts

I always felt that people found women more attractive if they were tanned and there are some parts where I'm so pale,…

— Nicola Roberts

No matter how much control you have or how much confidence, it's always in someone else's hands, all the time. That's the…

— Nicola Roberts

Fashion brings out what you are inside. A lot of people think it's got to be blue jeans, a Black coat, three…

— Nicola Roberts

I feel that all girls like clothes and I'm more of a creative person. If it's writing the album or developing the…

— Nicola Roberts

I got to a really dark place when it came to wanting to be tanned, really disliking my natural skin tone. I…

— Nicola Roberts

I have some people in my life who are stunning on the outside but maybe not as beautiful on the inside and…

— Nicola Roberts

In any social situation I'd much rather be on the periphery of things than at the centre. When I'm standing at the…

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I won't eat frozen food and I like to know where my food has come from. I don't like anything going in…

— Nicola Roberts

I don't ever want to work on something unless I feel really passionate about it and know I can give everything to…

— Nicola Roberts

I used to do fake tanning because I was told that I didn't look great.

— Nicola Roberts

I love Rodial, their products are amazing.

— Nicola Roberts

I want people to stop being so obsessed with the way they look.

— Nicola Roberts

I used to write at home a lot. I used to write a bit for Girls Aloud.

— Nicola Roberts

I like everything to be natural... believable.

— Nicola Roberts

I've always been a keen observer of people.

— Nicola Roberts

Having red hair was never an issue, I'm so happy I have red hair.

— Nicola Roberts

I have a treadmill in the house but I never use it.

— Nicola Roberts

I struggled all the time to find makeup that was light enough.

— Nicola Roberts

I'm one of those people who likes to be the only redhead in the village.

— Nicola Roberts

I was very young when I was using fake tan and I didn't care.

— Nicola Roberts

Kanye West would be my dream collaboration.

— Nicola Roberts

Emma Stone and Jessica Chastain are both very classic beauties.

— Nicola Roberts

I've always been taunted about my skin.

— Nicola Roberts

Most days I am very low key. Jumpers and jeans are my staples.

— Nicola Roberts

I grew up with gossip mags commenting on how I looked.

— Nicola Roberts