First baby on the way for Kirsten
Plemons and Dunst HOLLYWOOD star Kirsten Dunst is reportedly pregnant with her first child.
Us Weekly magazine said the 35-year-old and fiance Jesse Plemons are expecting a baby.
Kirsten said: “The focus in my life is... Well, I’m redoing a house.
“I have other things I’m enjoying and I’ve been working since I was three.
“I’m a homebody. I’m trying to make it all happen. The movie industry isn’t everything to me at all.”
The Spider-man star was more was more explicit about her plans in an interview with Marie Claire magazine.
She said: “I’m like, I’ve been working since I was three. It’s time to have babies and chill.” DYSLEXIA is a common learning difficulty that can cause problems with reading, writing and spelling.
It’s a “specific learning difficulty”, which means it causes problems with certain abilities used for learning. Unlike a learning disability, intelligence isn’t affected.
Famous people affected by dyslexia include:
■■Henry Winkler, actor
■■Steven Spielberg, director.
■■Muhammad Ali, boxer.
■■Anne Bancroft, actress
■■Duncan Goodhew, arctic explorer.
ON HER STRUGGLES GROWING UP
Brona Mills. 34, only began writing four years ago after the birth of her second child.
She said: “I failed English in secondary school and struggled with writing until I found out in college that I was dyslexic.”
A Time for Everything is not just the first novel by the mum of two, but she added it is also the first independently published book to be carried in Tesco stores in Ireland.
Brona, from Stamullen, Co Meath, said: “Although I did well in university, graduating with an honours law degree and a Masters in criminology and criminal justice, I never managed to start a career, and because of that always felt a little like a failure.
“So I decided I wanted to write something. I wanted it to be something I could hold up and say, ‘Look what I did’.
Her first attempt at a novel was “a crappy story that I wrote one paragraph for, and then closed the laptop because it was no good”.
Brona spent the next couple of years developing the idea of a fictional relationship which led to A Time For Everything.
JOURNEY
The result is the story of Michael who falls in love with Audrey, a time traveller, but he cannot keep her for longer than one day every year.
She gives him information to improve his life but the reader is taken on a journey pondering what in life should be left to fate and if we change fate, can everything be destroyed?
Brona said she might have been able to overcome the learning disability had it been noticed earlier.
She added: “I realised if I had been given proper guidance and support I could have passed English in school but my dyslexia was not spotted then.
“I don’t think I ever got over that. I wanted to do something that I could prove to myself that, actually, I can do this. That I can stand up and say, ‘Hey, I’m dyslexic’, but it didn’t hold me back. It’s not a disability in that sense.”
■ Brona will be signing books at Eason in Millfield Shopping Centre in Balbriggan, North Co Dublin, this Saturday from noon. The ebook is available on amazon.co.uk.
I realised if I had been given proper guidance and support I could have passed English BRONA MILLS