Quotes from Gemma Collins

I'll always be an Essex girl at heart but I've matured and I've evolved and with my work I'm in the West End all the time.

I would love to have a child. It would be great for me and such a positive message for all the girls out there who don't want to rush their life or their life has taken different a direction, like me who's put their career first.

I've only got to see an animal on TV and I start screaming. I don't like the feeling of claustrophobia either.

I'm not some beg voiceover. I'm a serious customer.

I could grow my own patch, make some apple pies and start selling them at the local country fair.

I have endured pain and suffering in my life, things haven't always been easy, I have suffered. And now I can help people in their lives.

You're never going to see me drinking some protein shake and doing 20 squat thrusts. I will never follow suit.

There's nothing better than cornflakes with hot milk. It's my Sunday treat.

I think it's acceptable to eat custard on Sundays.

When I go to the shopping centre, I'm not the GC. I'm just there with my mum.

I'm always surrounded by crazy people, but when I come back to the country I'm into my plants, I love gardening, I love bird watching and I absolutely love nature.

I can't go shopping like I did before I was famous. It has to be planned now. I can't walk around a shopping centre. Even when I have four security guards with me, shoppers run towards me. It's fun, but it's difficult when you're trying to get your bits.

I am Gemma Collins. I don't have to answer to anyone about my fashion choices.

I'm not one of these average reality people that are permanently doing Instagram posts, I break the mould, I break the Internet.

I am a very creative person.

Food became my coping mechanism and I've never been able to break that cycle.

I can remember I lost three and a half stone weight loss. It was painful, it was excruciating, it was hell. I had to exercise eight hours a day. It was very tiring, very exhausting. I came away seeing exercise as punishment.

When I first became known in public I was sent off to bootcamps. I was thrown into all this madness of weight loss and weight gain.

After six years of doing it, the weird thing on 'Towie' is that we can't explain to people that we're famous. We're doing a show where we have to act like normal people.

I'm not a presenter - I'm a star.

I can do Tarot cards and all that.

My dream show is to have this haunted house and get some celebrities in there and then I can do their Tarot cards and speak to the dead with them.

I love directing as I've got such a fantastic, a creative mind.

I believe there are lizards living amongst us. Do these humans who appear to be humans and look like us and act like us, go into the tunnels where their human faces, their human bodies - do they retract back into being lizards when they go into the tunnels?