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11 Peaches GeldofDaughter of celebrity, Peaches is no chrinking violet, havingembraced a celebrity lifestyle and made the most of every day. We take a look at the starlets story so far.
17 FashionWhether youre looking for lastminute holiday buys or preparingfor the school year ahead, weresure to have something to help youmake your mind up.
26 FitnessWindsurfings often thought of as asport of the 80s, but its still verymuch alive and sailing. Whatsmore, its a great way to keep fitand enjoy our beautiful coastline.
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A LITTLE under four yearsfrom when her father stood on a stage at WembleyStadium and thewatching world caught their breath atthe seismic shift in our place and responsibility in a global society, a child was born.Bob Geldof had lived a life where
convention was a foreign language; anopinionated, foul-mouthed, Irish rock star, who followed hisconscience into becoming one of the genuine heroes of the 20th century.Live Aid and his early day
performance before a capacity crowd will remain one of rock music'smost abiding images; while hisrelentless fundraising for the starving in Africa changed our outlookon life.His life was a soap opera, his
relationship with TV presenter PaulaYates the stuff of tabloid legend. Theirhome a sprawling priory on theoutskirts of Faversham.And into this world on March 13,
1989, emerged a girl who would prove as opinionated as her father and as strong-minded as her mother.Peaches Honeyblossom Geldof was
going to fit in just fine.Today, at just 23, she has
already crammed in enough drama, enough career twists and turns and enough headlines for her private life to rival her high-profilefamily.And earlier this year she became
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Life is PeachesBorn into a family life too extreme for a soap opera, Peaches Geldofsname has been in the papers from the moment it was controversiallybestowed upon her. Two decades later the starlet ensures its still there.
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13mmma family. A beautiful blondecarrying the child of a rock star and presenting it with a name to ensure they will alwaysbe the centre of attention. Soundfamiliar? She even looks like her mum.The big question on everyone'slips now is will the birth of her son Astala Dylan Willow Geldof-Cohen (well it was nevergoing to be John now, was it?) put the brakes on an insatiabledesire to achieve in whatever field she is dabbling in?Peaches had been a journalist,TV presenter and a model. Andalready has a failed marriage to her name.Now the focus is on motherhood.At least for the time being.My Dad is besotted with Astala,she explains, not only is he his first grandchild, but he's the first boy we've had in thefamily too.Not that Bob is too keen on the name, jokingly saying it's
a girl's name when quizzed on TV.And he knows a thing of twoabout girls' names. Following the tragic death of Paula Yates in 2000 from adrugs overdose she was found,aged 41, in her London flat after a heroin overdose on daughterPixie's tenth birthday Geldof had brought up not only his ownthree daughters but, perhaps most famously, the daughter of Paula Yates and MichaelHutchence the doomed INXS frontman who had famously died three years before Paula.Bob and Paula had divorced in 1996 a painful separationplayed out on the front pages of the tabloids, with Paula's high-profile relationship with the doomed Australian rockerblamed for the split.Peaches, Pixie and older sister Fifi Trixibelle were raised by Bob along with Michael a
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their home in Davington inFaversham and a pad in London.Peaches was given free reign
by her father. While he expected her to make her own way in life, he was liberal too, allowing her the freedom to follow her heart.By the tender age of 15 she
was already writing a column for the Daily Telegraph and various magazines.At 17 she had become a socialite
as well as taking her first step intoTV, presenting Sky One's PeachesGeldof: Teen America.Her unique sense of style
a leaf taken out of the book re-written by her mother even saw her named among Tatler'sfashion icons for 2007. Peacheswas still just 18.It would be easy to assume life
was easy for Peaches after all, her father's fortune runs into thehundreds of millions courtesy of a rock career and some shrewdinvestment in television companies.Peaches, however, insists
otherwise.My father has never supported
me, she says, he is really tight. He grew up in an Irish householdand that attitude has stayed withhim ever since. When I was at school all my
friends were getting 200 a weekand I was getting 50p.He'd just tell me I should go and
make my own money.And so she did; creating a position
where the jobs started to fly in. Fromediting a magazine to being a topmodel, Peaches has generated herown inc
