Ulrika Jonsson

If I'm too lively, too crazy for someone, then you're not my guy.

— Ulrika Jonsson

I wanted to show there's more to Swedish food than Ikea meatballs.

— Ulrika Jonsson

Conformity is for followers, not leaders.

— Ulrika Jonsson

I've never in my life fought over a man.

— Ulrika Jonsson

I really enjoyed my photoshoots. Did I feel objectified? No. I felt in control.

— Ulrika Jonsson

Coming from Sweden, I've always grown up with images of older women around me.

— Ulrika Jonsson

Misogyny is still very much alive and kicking in the world of football.

— Ulrika Jonsson

The press has always done terrible things to me.

— Ulrika Jonsson

My experience of the press has always been one of fear. They make me nervous and scared.

— Ulrika Jonsson

Parenting is a rollercoaster of baloney with no instruction manual. We just have to do our best.

— Ulrika Jonsson

Women have been programmed to criticise their own bodies because we should have the shape that society, and in particular men, want.

— Ulrika Jonsson

Human touch is comforting, it offers reassurance and it communicates more than words could ever do.

— Ulrika Jonsson

I don't see the end of relationships as failures. Some of them are experiences. Sometimes things falter through no fault of your…

— Ulrika Jonsson

There's no denying that being single means the world can assume there's something wrong with you - sees you as incompetent, a…

— Ulrika Jonsson

I'm a hedonist and a spontaneous person who believes in love. While it would feel strange getting married again, I can't ever…

— Ulrika Jonsson

I never had any idea how much happiness flaking on the sofa and doing nothing could bring.

— Ulrika Jonsson

When your love life is in the hands of algorithms alone, you're heading down a one-way street. And sometimes that's a street…

— Ulrika Jonsson

I tend to live my life for me. Because I was unfaithful in my first marriage, that doesn't reflect particularly well, whereas…

— Ulrika Jonsson

As a product of divorced parents perhaps I should have been considerably more cynical, but for some reason I am a proponent…

— Ulrika Jonsson

I was certainly no swan - with my horrendously protruding goofy teeth, bow legs and under-developed, clumsy, boyish, adolescent body. I was…

— Ulrika Jonsson

Norland nannies teach 'emotion coaching' which enables the child to talk through difficult emotions or events, and instructs them to find different…

— Ulrika Jonsson

I was nearly 41 when I had my last child. I felt that was late, that I was pushing Mother Nature to…

— Ulrika Jonsson

Weird thing is, throughout my life I didn't realise it wasn't normal to have pain in your hips. Mine is chronic and…

— Ulrika Jonsson

I have experienced a fairly wide range of motherhood. I've done it on my own a lot of the time, I've done…

— Ulrika Jonsson

I'm not someone to avoid controversy in my personal life.

— Ulrika Jonsson

Apart from anything else, in the most genuinely self-deprecating way, I find it very hard to watch myself on screen, whatever you…

— Ulrika Jonsson

If kids aren't allowed to experience monotony and tedium, it's unlikely they will value the times they are entertained.

— Ulrika Jonsson

I would paint myself as a liberal parent. But I am also a strict disciplinarian. I insist on good behaviour and bloody…

— Ulrika Jonsson

I have always believed that giving children choice is a terrible idea. The more choice you give, the more they will run…

— Ulrika Jonsson

I think we may have overlooked men's negative feelings about their bodies because judgment of women has historically always been so much…

— Ulrika Jonsson

I have to actively stop myself from calling bits of myself 'fat' whenever I see something wobble because, fundamentally, I know that…

— Ulrika Jonsson

I had to learn during lockdown that kids make a mess and I have to stand by. And that was tough.

— Ulrika Jonsson

I don't condone any kind of violence. I've been on the receiving end of violence as an adult. I've witnessed it.

— Ulrika Jonsson

Life gets busy and we choose the path of least resistance when it comes to bringing up our children.

— Ulrika Jonsson

When you aren't artificially and externally stimulated you are forced to draw on your internal resources - your brain, imagination, creativity.

— Ulrika Jonsson

As a woman, I have always felt the need to hold things I do to impossibly high standards.

— Ulrika Jonsson

A tag I am happy to bear is that of feminist. I was born in one of the most egalitarian countries in…

— Ulrika Jonsson

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but I also know that funny outlasts pretty any day of the week.

— Ulrika Jonsson

I hated my girls' love of princesses, ballet and all things pink and glittery. I didn't want it foisted on them at…

— Ulrika Jonsson

By my fourth pregnancy I'd send somebody else to get a pregnancy test because I daren't be seen going into Boots for…

— Ulrika Jonsson