I’VE LEARNT THE POWER OF CONFIDENCE
iSaBelle hunn, 60, is a film extra and lives in Suffolk with her husband richard, 56, who works in engineering. On A HOt day last June at Ascot races, i had never felt more beautiful in my life. i lost count of the racegoers admiring my look.
What a difference a year makes. twelve months earlier, i’d been diagnosed with leukaemia. Oddly, that’s when my silver swan transformation began.
My hair fell out in great clumps when i started chemotherapy, which was the most distressing part of my illness, even though i’d always hated my hair.
But when it began to grow back, it was thicker, wavy and slightly lighter than before. Suddenly, i had a confidence that i’d never had before.
At school when i was younger, i was terribly conscious of being 5ft 7in and very skinny. When i was about 40, a friend said: ‘Your twin sister is better looking, but you have a great personality!’
So nobody is more surprised than me that i have unexpectedly bloomed in the last year, despite going through so much.
Gone is the plain Jane of old. Richard has always complimented me on how i look. A year ago he thought he might lose me so the fact i’m alive is everything he could have hoped for.
Realising that beauty is no longer the preserve of the young has been a revelation. if only i’d known the power of a little self- confidence when i was younger, i may have bloomed sooner.