Tuesday, 5 August 2008

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Geri Halliwell: I'm an anxious, worrying control freak

Ex-Spice Girl hates the fact she has to stay in control

Geri Halliwell has just finished touring with The Spice Girls

Geri Halliwell admits that she needs to chill out and stop fixating on work.

'I wish I could slow down a bit, trust more, love more,' she confides.

Ginger, 36, deplores her tendency to obsess and wishes she could enjoy herself without fretting. In her twenties, she just couldn't relax.

'I was so hard and uptight. If only I wasn't an anxious, worrying control freak.'

The singer, mum to Bluebell Madonna, 2, was touring with the Spice Girls until February but also managed to publish her first children’s book, Ugenia Lavender.

Caring for her daughter and also always having several projects on the go means she's often reduced to tears by exhaustion.

'I get overwhelmed and tired,' she tells The Guardian Weekend.

'Boredom, poverty and dark clouds depress me. I wish I was a psychic mind reader who could travel in time. I'd tell my young self, "Let go and live, Geri."'

Laura Elias