Another novel, Mad Cows, was also turned into a film - starring Anna Friel as Maddy, a sarcastic new mother who finds herself in Holloway prison after an arrest for shoplifting in Harrods and is forced to turn to her less than reliable boyfriend.

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But after weeks of being completely overwhelmed, I found a few strategies that helped make my life easier and helped me adjust to my new role as a mother.

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Even as far afield as New Orleans, where the mother of a Bangladeshi friend carries a bio of Saujani in her purse.

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And if someone dared to, she could just as easily reach for her wedding cake and slap frosting into their faces as Kim once did to her mother, who in a brilliant twist has the same name as her new husband.

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In 1964, the queen became a mother for the fourth time as new son Edward joined Charles and fellow siblings Anne and Andrew.

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As she watched her mother admire her new necklace in a mirror, Vivian realized that she would always have to choose what to believe, and that, chances were, more often than not she would be wrong.

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She learned that skill as a child from her mother, who often took her to New York's Loehmann's, which sells designer clothes at discount prices.

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Now co-CEO of Sprayology, a Tinton Falls, New Jersey maker of homeopathic remedies and vitamins, Bose had been fixated on Mother Theresa as a child growing up outside Montreal.

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