How former It-girl Caprice Bourret turned mompreneur: ‘My life was mad, wild, fun ? I loved it, I lived it’

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Caprice Bourret has 操るd a reinvention of epic 割合s. But celebrity is like an 中毒, she 自白するs ? it pulls you 支援する…??

CAPRICE WEARS COAT and EARRINGS, Dior. BODY, Wolford. NECKLACE, Susan Caplan. RING, Savage & Rose. SHOES, Topshop

In a penthouse 控訴 overlooking the 有望な lights of London, Caprice Bourret is having a moment. Her mouth is 直す／買収する，八百長をするd in a perfect ‘O’ as a sudden 発覚 ? 儀礼 of YOU ? 攻撃する，衝突するs her. It’s a flashback from her wild past as the ultimate It-girl of a 世代 whose lives 回転するd around parties, 私的な jets and paparazzi.

The last time Caprice 提起する／ポーズをとるd for YOU was 16 years ago, at the 高さ of her fame. ‘The night before I’d been at the MTV Awards in Frankfurt until 5am and I met Fred Durst [the lead singer of 激しく揺する 禁止（する）d Limp Bizkit]. During the shoot he called and told me he was in New York and was sending me a 計画（する） ticket so I could 飛行機で行く to see him that night.

‘He was pretty hot so I went straight from the shoot to the 計画（する）, his driver 選ぶd me up at the airport in New York and took me to a gorgeous French restaurant, La Goulue. We had this crazy romantic dinner, then he said he needed to go to his 記録，記録的な／記録するing studio to lay 負かす／撃墜する a 跡をつける. I was furious. I’d flown all the way out there to see him and I wasn’t going to wait around. I went straight 支援する to the airport and 調書をとる／予約するd a flight to London.

‘And that,’ she says, ‘was what my life was like then. It was mad, wild, fun; I 時代遅れの so many guys [she was 現実に in a 関係 with Saturday Night Live’s David Spade at the time of the Durst 連絡事務]. I loved it, I lived it, but I wouldn’t go 支援する.’

Caprice is now 45 years old. She is still very beautiful ? a willowy, expensive-looking blonde ? but she is no longer the It-girl who 逮捕（する）d headlines in 1996 by wearing a see-through 黒人／ボイコット lace dress and dating men from Durst to footballer Tony Adams and cricketer Kevin Pietersen.?

Today she is the mother of three-year-old boys Jett and Jax. She has a partner, City financier Ty 慰安 (who has three children from a previous marriage), and an underwear and bedding 商売／仕事, By Caprice 製品s (she is 創立者 and CEO).

Above, from left: Caprice in the 現在の 一連の The Jump and with her partner Ty 慰安

Hers is a reinvention of epic 割合s. Once the number-one choice of lads’ mags and celebrity magazines, Caprice now speaks 定期的に at 商売／仕事 会議／協議会s and appears in the 財政上の pages of newspapers. Her metamorphosis began in her 早期に 30s when she realised that her days as a model were numbered. ‘I knew I had one foot in the 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な ーに関して／ーの点でs of my career and I needed a 計画（する） B.’

In 2000, Debenhams used her 指名する on a 範囲 of lingerie. Six years later she bought 支援する the licence and began By Caprice. ‘It wasn’t 平易な. やめる rightly 供給者s and stockists had no 利益／興味 in some model who could be here one minute and gone the next. I stalked people to get them to take me 本気で. I had to 熟考する／考慮する the market, see for myself which designs worked and which didn’t, make 急速な／放蕩な 決定／判定勝ち（する）s about 在庫／株 and look at 財政／金融s, 交流 率s and where the best factories were. Debenhams 支援するd me, but it took me two years to 説得する Next to 在庫／株 my designs and 結局 others followed, 含むing Figleaves and Asos.’

She 述べるs herself as a ‘mompreneur’ and 作品 five days a week at an office 近づく her West London home. She is 手渡すs-on with the designs 同様に as the accounts and her small team of staff. ‘People 裁判官 me for my past and they always will. But I have my babies, my boy and my 商売／仕事 ? and that’s all I need,’ she says.

Caprice embraces rather than 減らすs her racy past. ‘I was always really about 商売／仕事,’ she says. ‘Hell, taking my 着せる／賦与するs off was a 商売／仕事 決定／判定勝ち（する）. I’m too short for catwalk modelling and 支援する then the lads’ mags were where the money was. I made my first million by 25 and I 投資するd in 所有物／資産／財産. I could have made more money by marrying a rich man, but that was never my 計画（する）. I was raised by my mother to be 独立した・無所属, so I worked with what I had to get me where I am.’

But life is never that simple, and for Caprice there’s a new 複雑化. The day after we 会合，会う, she flew to Innsbruck in Austria, where she is taking part in Channel 4’s terrifying winter sports challenge The Jump, と一緒に former professional cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins, 体操教師（選手） Louis Smith, former England footballer Robbie Fowler and TV presenter Vogue Williams. It is a series that has 本気で 負傷させるd more celebrities ? 含むing actress Tina Hobley, Sir Steve Redgrave and 体操教師（選手） Beth Tweddle, who had to be airlifted to hospital ? than any other show in TV history. In 2015 former 厳密に ダンサー Ola Jordan and Sally Bercow were both so 不正に 負傷させるd in training that neither of them made it to the actual 競争.

Caprice shrugs: ‘I heard all the horror stories but I also did my own 研究. I spoke to nine people, 含むing my friends Tamara Beckwith and Jodie Kidd [both previous contestants], who all gave me proper advice and 激励. I have been skiing since I was a toddler and I won’t be taking any unnecessary 危険s. The idea of training with professionals at the 最高の，を越す of their game really 解雇する／砲火／射撃d me up, and I’m going to take my boys and Ty out there for two weeks so they can ski and we can have time together.’

Caprice is no stranger to reality shows, having appeared on Celebrity Big Brother, 飛び込み show Splash! and Celebrity Come Dine With Me and, as ever, there is a 商売／仕事 angle. ‘I’d be a liar if I didn’t 収容する／認める I’m partly doing this to 促進する my brand. When I was on Big Brother my underwear 範囲 sold out in two weeks, which was incredible. We are living in 堅い times in 小売 ? I lost 30 per cent of my 逮捕する 価値（がある） 夜通し after Brexit ? so you have to do everything you can to 促進する your brand. But honestly, I’m going to be learning incredible 技術s. I’m 完全に terrified about doing the 骸骨／概要 run [downhill toboggan].’ She pauses and smiles: ‘There’s also the thrill of dipping my toe 支援する into the entertainment 商売／仕事 ? it’s definitely going to be exciting.

‘I remember when my whole life was about 存在 in the limelight and trying to pretend ? like so many celebrities do ? that I 設立する it hard. But who are they kidding? It’s amazing. You get looked after, you get loved, you have people running around you. I loved everything about it. 存在 a mum, shopping, making meals, running my own 商売／仕事 ? that’s hard work.’

She is, however, happier in herself than she was a １０年間 ago. ‘I drank too much, I partied too much. I never touched 麻薬s but I made a lot of mistakes.’ There was a drink-運動ing 出来事/事件 in 2006, 提起する／ポーズをとるing nude for Playboy in 2000, knocking five years off her age when the US oil 相続人 Alex Davis asked her to marry him in 2003, and rumours of her dating Prince Andrew in 2000 (‘He was just a friend,’ she said later). Ask her what her biggest mistake was and she says, ‘Probably some of the guys I went out with. But I learned never to make the same mistake twice.’

DRESS, La Mania. SHOES, Giuseppe Zanotti

And so 支援する to the 複雑化s of her life. As we sit and talk, Caprice becomes more serious. Born and bred in California, she is direct and feels no 当惑 talking about money, about 関係s, about Botox. ‘Yes I do it and I love it. I started after I had kids. It freshens up my 直面する. I do have wrinkles, I do have cellulite and I don’t really care, but when I look in a mirror after I’ve had Botox I think my 直面する looks better. For me, it’s a good thing.’

We talk about Ty, her partner of five years, who she met through の近くに friends a year after he had 分裂（する） from his wife. ‘He is this tall, handsome, 静かな, academic, solid man,’ she says. ‘I held out for someone like him. He makes me happy, he’s a good father.’

Within a year of 存在 with Ty, Caprice knew she 手配中の，お尋ね者 children, but after several 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs of IVF she was let 負かす／撃墜する by the 団体／死体 that made her fame and fortune. Doctors said her womb lining was too thin to support a baby. ‘So there were 涙／ほころびs, there was heartbreak, and then you work out how else you can become a mother,’ she says.

She 選ぶd for surrogacy, travelling with Ty to California to find a woman to carry their 生物学の child. ‘We went to the 明言する／公表するs because in Britain a surrogate can change her mind and have a 合法的な 権利 to the child she has carried, even if it is your 生物学の baby,’ she says. ‘We didn’t want to take the 危険.’

As part of the 過程, would-be surrogate mothers 服従させる／提出する resum?s for 可能性のある parents. Caprice 手配中の，お尋ね者 a surrogate who didn’t drink alcohol, smoke, take 麻薬s and was 静かな and 宗教的な. You have to wonder how she herself would have fared: would she have 選ぶd someone like her? ‘Hell no,’ she says bluntly. ‘I 手配中の，お尋ね者 someone 完全に opposite, I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to make sure everything would be all 権利.’

But, in a bizarre 新たな展開 of 運命／宿命, within months of the surrogacy taking place, Caprice 設立する out that she was 妊娠している herself and that her baby would be born within weeks of her surrogate baby (conceived by IVF using her egg and Ty’s sperm).

‘For us, it was two 奇蹟s 同時に起こる／一致するing ? the surrogacy working and then my pregnancy,’ she says. ‘I was filming Splash! at the time and felt exhausted. When I 行方不明になるd my period I thought it was because my 団体／死体 was under 緊張する from the training and all the IVF I had been through. When I finally did a pregnancy 実験（する） we were stunned. I’d been told by doctors it was impossible.’

It has been written that Caprice is raising her boys as twins and will not tell them which one was born by surrogate until they are 16. She shakes her 長，率いる. ‘I don’t raise them as twins. They have separate birthdays a few weeks apart, but we only have one party because it would be silly at their age to do anything different.’ As regards the surrogacy she looks serious. ‘We see our surrogate about twice a year. She’s a lovely lady and my boys call her auntie, but as yet they don’t know anything more. We want to tell them, sooner rather than later, because it’s not something we want to leave as a big secret. It’s just finding the 権利 words, the 権利 way to tell them.’

Caprice has had more eggs frozen, but has decided against その上の 試みる／企てるs. ‘I feel I have been luckier than I ever thought I would be and that, at 45 with two boys, I have everything I ever 手配中の，お尋ね者.’

JUMPSUIT, AQ/AQ. BRACELETS, Monica Vinader

There are no 計画（する）s to marry Ty. ‘非，不，無,’ she says 堅固に. ‘I don’t want to get married. I never have. I want to be with Ty for ever but marriage is ugly and difficult and it’s not something I need.’

It is a strange choice of words. But there is a glittering 半導体素子 within Caprice that is straight from an F Scott Fitzgerald story. To understand her you have to understand where she （機の）カム from. Born in Hacienda 高さs in Los Angeles 郡, she was 指名するd by her glamorous 内部の designer mother Valerie after a Doris Day movie. She grew up with her younger sister Tiffany surrounded by 親族s, playing poker at 週末s and skiing during the winter. Her 広い地所-スパイ／執行官 father Dale left when she was four, after 離婚ing Valerie, and never saw his daughter again after she turned nine.

It is, she 収容する／認めるs, the 推論する／理由 why she will never marry. ‘It scarred me,’ she says. ‘I remember the 列／漕ぐ／騒動s, I remember these two people who fell out of love, and I remember 法廷，裁判所 事例／患者s over money. It was ugly.’

Remarkably, Caprice has never had any ill feeling に向かって her father. She has always, in interviews, said she loved him. Now she is trying to stop 涙／ほころびs 落ちるing. Just weeks before our 会合 she discovered he had died. ‘I didn’t have a 関係 with him, but I have always loved him and know there are two 味方するs to every story. Just recently he left this earth, which was painful, but I know he looks after me and my boys. He’s our 後見人 angel. I am proud to be his daughter and hope I can make him just as proud.’

She asks to change the 支配する. It is （疑いを）晴らす she has been 攻撃する，衝突する by an emotional 津波. I ask her about her mother, the woman who waved her goodbye at the age of 18 when, after winning 行方不明になる Teen California, she left home to become a model, working for Vogue and Sports Illustrated, travelling the world and 結局 上陸 in London ? the city she now considers her home ? at the age of 23.

‘My mother made me 独立した・無所属,’ she says. ‘She gave me a 広大な／多数の／重要な work ethic and a sense that I could be 完全に fearless.’

Her younger sister (they are a year apart) 作品 as a nurse and they remain の近くに. ‘My mum and my sister are both very beautiful but much more voluptuous than I am. I watch my 負わせる because I have the fat 遺伝子 and can’t let it out.’ Ever the model, when she d iets she just eats broccoli, tofu and legumes and nothing after 5pm. ‘I’m not so strict these days,’ she says, pointing out a microscopic tummy bulge. ‘But I always have small 部分s and I never eat late.’

It is very 平易な to like Caprice, to see the grit beneath the glamour, the woman who has made the best of things, who turned a wasteland 近づく her West London home into a community garden 事業／計画（する） that won her accolades from her 隣人s.?

As she leaves, she returns to the 支配する of her sons. ‘I loved my wild life before all this,’ she says. ‘But I never knew happiness like I have now and all I want is for this to last.’ As for those ski jumps? ‘I’m going to surprise you.’ She already has.

• The Jump is on Channel 4 tonight
• By Caprice is 利用できる from very.co.uk, lookagain.co.uk and wayfair.co.uk?

STYLING?Alexandria Reid at Frank 機関?

HAIR Alex Price at Frank 機関

MAKE-UP Bea 甘い at LMC 世界的な using Mac cosmetics

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CAPRICE’S FELLOW IT-GIRLS?

?LISA B

Lisa B in 1995 and 2012

Then The model and actress (she played Hugh 認める’s bitchy girlfriend in the first Bridget Jones film) was linked to Prince Andrew and Bruce Willis before marrying 所有物／資産／財産 大君 Anton Bilton in 2004.

Now?Lisa, 45, and her family (she has three sons with Bilton) divide their time between Kensington and stately home Tyringham Hall in Buckinghamshire.

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?TAMARA BECKWITH?

Tamara Beckwith in 1995 and ?last year

Then The model and ‘マスコミ babe’ 発射 to fame in Channel 4’s Filthy Rich: Daddy’s Girls と一緒に Caprice, having dropped out of school at 16 to have a baby. Growing up, her daughter Anouska 解任するd ‘抱擁する house parties that went on for days’.

Now Tamara, 46, co-owns a London gallery and is one of the 売買業者s on Channel 4’s Four Rooms. She and her husband, construction 相続人 Giorgio Veroni, have a daughter and a son.

LADY VICTORIA HERVEY?

Lady Victoria Hervey in 1998 and 2016

Then The aristocrat and one-time model 攻撃する，衝突する the headlines with her high hemlines (showcased in her London boutique Akademi) and millionaire boyfriends.

Now After her boutique failed, 40-year-old Lady Victoria moved to LA, tried reality TV (Love Island, The Jump) and last year published her first novel Lady In Waiting.

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NORMANDIE KEITH??

Normandie in the 90s and now

Then Model Normandie was at the 最前部 of the 90s It-girl party scene, appearing with the late Tara Palmer-Tomkinson on the cover of Tatler. She married millionaire financier Lucas White in 2000 and wrote a beauty column for YOU.

Now Normandie, 46, returned to her native US with her son Finn in 2008, 分裂（する） from White the に引き続いて year and now teaches yoga in LA.??????

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