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ISSUE CONTENTS AUGUST NEWSANDINTERVIEWS The Mummy Diaries star SAM FAIERS exclusively talks to OK! about her long-term compulsive disorder, and how she’s beating it KATE MOSS soaks up the sun in France PAUL HOLLYWOOD’s bitter split from SUMMER MONTEYS-FULLAM Love Island lovebirds MOLLY-MAE HAGUE and TOMMY FURY join OK! for an exclusive shoot BRADLEY COOPER, OPRAH WINFREY, ORLANDO BLOOM and KATY PERRY holiday together in Italy It’s plain sailing for THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE at Cowes KYM MARSH’s OK! column MARK WRIGHT and MICHELLE KEEGAN enjoy some down time in Majorca Meet the new stars of Strictly Come Dancing EMILY ANDRE’s OK! column BRIT CROWD All the UK showbiz news THISWEEK’SCOVERSTARS LOVE MATTERS Who’s found Cupid? BRAD PITT on his latest role in QUENTIN TARANTINO’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Rugby ace BEN FODEN gets married… after two weeks of dating! OK! looks forward to the return of Peaky Blinders as we chat to three of the hit show’s stars, HELEN McCRORY, SOPHIE RUNDLE and NATASHA O’KEEFFE Sex And The City creator CANDACE BUSHNELL talks to OK! about dating, her latest book and New York in the ’90s LISA SNOWDON on the perimenopause Coronation Street actress BROOKE VINCENT celebrates at her baby shower Emmerdale star SANDRA MARVIN reveals her plans for life after the Dales HOLLYWOOD CONFIDENTIAL England footballer ELLEN WHITE talks about peaking out about LoveLIld Island’T’s Tommy Fury F and dMll Molly- fulfilling her dreams at the Women’s World Cup OK! ICONS a health disorder Mae Hague look super sexy in our exclusive Penélope Cruz OK! PARTIES takes courage, so shoot, and while they’re going from The week’s big events we commend Sam strength to strength, they can’t understand SFaiers, who describes the negative comments. ‘Whatever she FASHIONISTA living with trichotillomania goes through, I go through. It’s horrible,’ in our frank interview. Tommy tells us in between bites of WHAT’S IN STORE Michelle Keegan for Very Since childhood the mayonnaise-laden pizza. And while Molly- FASHION SPY Rosie’s stylish week star has suffered with Mae concedes that some of the things STEAL THE STARS’ STYLE the condition that sees written about her have been ‘pretty vile’, BEAUTY EDIT All that glitters her habitually pick out all her eyelashes. she says: ‘I’m so happy – I’m loving my life.’ BEAUTY BUZZ Citrus scents Sam, who is joined by her children for our There was fun for the Duke and Duchess exclusive shoot, tells us the trigger for the of Cambridge last week when they attended compulsive disorder was her stepdad going the King’s Cup regatta with Princess Charlotte LIFESTYLEANDCHAT to prison when she was eight. ‘I used to and Prince George, who looked pick out an eyelash and wish for my dad to adorable in his captain’s hat! OK! HEALTH Coping with panic attacks come home,’ she says. Plus, we bring you OK! TRAVEL Rhodes The catalyst for her finally seeking help interviews with Once STARS What lies ahead this week came when her daughter Rosie began Upon A Time In OK! HOTSPOT Moddershall Oaks ROWAN ERLAM OK! RECIPES copying her. ‘I was like, no, I can’t have her Hollywood actor Brad OK! ACTING EDITOR Lucy Burton doing that – that was the turning point.’ Pitt and the stars of ROWANERLAM OK! REVIEWS The hottest new releases Turn the page for the full interview. Peaky Blinders! rowanerlam VINTAGE OK! Coleen Rooney on married life VISITOURWEBSITEWWWOKCOUK /OKMAGAZINEUK @OK_MAGAZINE @OK_MAG CAMERA PRESS, DAVID ENGLISH, LORNA ROACH, REZA KIO, WIRE IMAGE CAMERA PRESS, DAVID WWW.OK.CO.UK 3 INAFRANKANDMOVINGINTERVIEW ‘IDIDN’TSEE PICKINGOUTMY EYELASHESAS SELF-HARMING BUTITIS’ REALITYTVQUEEN SAMFAIERS OPENSUP TOOK!’SKATIELANGFORD-FOSTERABOUT HERCOMPULSIVEDISORDERANDWHAT FINALLYPERSUADEDHERTOSEEKHELP atching entrepreneur and reality star From the age of eight, Sam has suffered Samantha Faiers calmly juggle business with trichotillomania, a condition that sees her calls and tend to her two children habitually pick out all her eyelashes. This year, while looking like a movie star on our she’s finally felt ready to talk openly about it and Wexclusive shoot is impressive, to say the least. seek help. ‘I didn’t see picking out my eyelashes Alongside running their businesses, All Bits as self-harming, but it is,’ she tells us. London and My Little Darlin’, Sam and her partner Big Paul’s mum, nanny Gaynor, is on hand to of almost five years, Paul Knightley, are parents to help with the children as we chat, and as Sam opens adorable son Paul, three – known affectionately as up about her condition and family life, it’s clear her little Paul – and one-year-old daughter Rosie. feet are still firmly on the ground – albeit now in But while today’s shoot with her children is Hertfordshire rather than her home county of Essex. an undeniably glam affair, Sam is keen to open The 28 year old tells us: ‘I know my sister and up about the disorder that has plagued her I live a bit of a glamorous lifestyle sometimes, but since childhood. 90 per cent of the time we are mums at home 4 ‘I’d pick out an eyelash and wish for my dad to come home from prison,’ Sam says of when her trichotillomania began SAM WEARS DRESS BY JOAO ROLO; AND EARRINGS VICKI SARGE WWW.OK.CO.UK 5 Left: Sam with daughter Rosie and son Paul. Below left: With partner Paul. Below right: Sam make-up free on Celebrity Big Brother in 2014 with our kids having know what it’s like growing up with it tantrums and changing and feeling self-conscious. Thank God nappies!’ She’s of course for fake eyelashes! referring to her older sister and fellow former Do you wear them all the time? TOWIE star Billie, with No, I’m actually quite good now. When I whom she stars in was in TOWIE, I used to wear them all the ITVBe’s The Mummy time. I was still very self-conscious, and Diaries, now in series six. felt I had to wear fake eyelashes and lots Here, Sam opens of eye make-up to cover the fact I didn’t up about seeking help have any lashes. Most of the time now, for her hair-pulling I just line my eyes with eyeliner, so you disorder, family life and can’t really notice. why honesty is the key to her success… presentsp t butb tt nothinghi How does it feel when you are actually worked.w Now I’ve got kids, picking them out? You’ve suffered with trichotillomania for the last thing I’d want them to think is that It feels nice. It’s a habit and a compulsive 20 years. How does it affect you? it’s okay to pull your eyelashes out. disorder, but I am so used to it I don’t even I’m speaking about it more now because I see it as that. I don’t see picking out my am at the point where I am ready to grow Do you ever pull out the hair on eyelashes as self-harming, but it is. them back. It’s such a subconscious thing. I your head? do it either in my sleep or I pull them when No, just my eyelashes. It’s more common How many therapy sessions have I am in a daydream. My mum tried to stop in women and girls and 2.5 per cent of you had? me for years. She put little mittens on me at the UK suffer with it. I hope me speaking I’ve had two in the last couple of months. bedtime, I had hypnotherapy and incentive about it will help other people because I But it’s meant to take a minimum of 6 ‘We don’t have a nanny or any extra help,’ Sam tells us ERS BY BURBERRY SAM WEARS SUIT BY RDVK; SHOES BY GIANVITO ROSSI; AND EARRINGS BY VALET. ROSIE WEARS DRESS BY BURBERRY. PAUL WEARS TOP AND TROUS PAUL ROSIE WEARS DRESS BY BURBERRY.