First she bared her legs in a bedroom snap on Instagram to celebrate her 21st wedding anniversary; now she is baring her soul about having to borrow a bra.
Samantha Cameron has confessed to “all kinds of disasters” during her time in No 10, which complicated her life in the public eye during her six years as Britain’s first lady. “I once had to wrestle a new bra off some poor member of Dave’s team,” the spouse known as Sam Cam writes in an exclusive column for The Sunday Times Style magazine today. She also regrets wearing a silk dress to a party conference in 2010 as it ripped when she sat down to listen to her husband’s speech. “You can’t see it in the pictures, but I had to make sure I was standing on the right side of Dave so you couldn’t see the tear!”
She does not explain what happened to her own bra — or exactly whose lingerie she stole — but she warns women in the public eye that looking “appropriate” requires “a lot of advance preparation”.
Cameron, who has her own fashion label, Cefinn, also recalls that she once wore a “slightly shorter” polka-dot dress but ended up “feeling paranoid that people could see my cellulite”. She says she likes trouser suits, but could not wear them in public when her husband was leader because they would have looked like “Thing One and Thing Two”.
Her photo of the couple’s tanned legs and pedicured feet in a rumpled bed in a Spanish hotel did not escape criticism. It was intended as a saucy celebration, but the effect was slightly spoilt by the wag who posted a doctored shot showing Nick Clegg grinning at the bottom.
