And here is an extract from the interview our UK Patron Sam gave in the Net a Porter Edit:
“When I had Angelica, I TRIED to do it all and it was too much. I gave up a lot to try to prove I could be everything”
Mother to four daughters, Angelica, 15, Jessie, six,
Wylda, two, and Romy, one, Taylor-Johnson was awarded an OBE in 2011
for services to the arts. Nominated for the Turner Prize in 1998, she is
one of the most important contemporary female artists working today.
Her first feature film, Nowhere Boy (which she fought hard to
be chosen for), received four BAFTA nominations, and introduced her to
her now husband who took the movie's starring role – the 23-year age gap
between the two (he is 22) generating headlines and a great
deal of envy. But perhaps it was her dignified divorce, from art
dealer Jay Jopling in 2008, and two battles with cancer (colon then
breast), both in her early thirties, that really marked her out as
someone to be reckoned with, someone to be admired, someone with spirit.
Her children got her through that ordeal, she tells me later, once
the props have been packed away and the sun is setting on the Hudson.
“Having children has given me that sense of, 'I have to get through
whatever challenges I face, because there's no option',” she explains.
“People say, 'Oh, you're a survivor, you must be so strong,' but there
are definitely times when you don't feel so strong. And, really, family
is what kept me going.”
Shirt and skirt by Stella McCartney; earrings by Ileana Makri; necklace by Diane Kordas
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