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How (Not) To Be Strong: The inspirational instant Sunday Times Bestseller

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With raw honesty, Alex shows how she's tackled life's challenges and that sometimes the strongest thing you can do is show your most vulnerable side to the world. It’s an extremely open, vulnerable, honest collection of stories about a kid with an alcoholic and abusive father.

In her candid memoir How (Not) to Be Strong , Alex shares the lessons that have shaped her, from finally confronting the legacy of a tumultuous childhood to tarnished truth behind the gleaming football trophies. She started her life in the back streets of the East End of London and fought hard to get where she is now. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It wasn’t easy for the TV personality to put her life into words, especially when dealing with some of the tough moments she’s endured. This summer, England hosted the Euros - a tournament held every four years pitting national European teams against each other. From facing her tumultuous childhood to the abuse she has faced since appearing as a presenter including being told she should be at home doing the ironing and cooking. All members can listen all they want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, originals, and more in the Plus Catalog.

However, life has taught me the opposite and actually showing vulnerability and exposing flaws can be the bravest thing you can do. Bucking expectations is a recurring theme in Scott’s reflections on her life so far, beginning with her difficult early years growing up in a single-parent, working-class family living in a low-income area of east London. In her debut book, Alex outlines the inspirational pillars of strength which have helped her to thrive: finding your voice, knowing when to ask for help, letting guilt go, embracing uncertainty and celebrating your wins. In her emotional interview on The One Show, Alex opened up about some of the darkest points over the course of her career. This book has everything a celebrity / sportsperson autobiography should: courage, grit, gratitude, introspection, complexity, authenticity, heart…and a healthy dose of 🫖 throughout!Speaking about their relationship, the Football Focus star explained to Chris: “I was young at the time. But thanks to a ‘push-through mentality’ the world has only ever seen the ‘strong’ side of Alex Scott. Alex also used the pages of her memoir to openly chat about her relationship with fellow football star Kelly Smith.

The One Show presenter began by congratulating her on laying bare some of her most personal memories in her new memoir. Last year, Alex confirmed she was just seven years old when her father left, taking almost all of their possessions with her. She retired from international football in 2017, though not before representing Great Britain in the Olympics. Here, she proves that sometimes the strongest thing you can do is show your most vulnerable side to the world.Alex is one of the UK's most in-demand presenters, appearing on The One Show , Children in Need , Sport Relief and ITV's The Games . She continued: “When the book was released, I didn't realise how traumatising it was going to be for me again, speaking about all the emotions and everything that we've gone through.

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