Clare Bailey Mosley: “What thing could improve the quality of my life? Michel’ | Life and style

BBorn in Singapore, Clare Bailey Mosley, 64, studied at the Royal Free Medical School where she met Michael Mosley: they married in 1987. She worked as a general practitioner until her retirement in 2022. She wrote the recipe books that accompany her husband’s 8-week blood sugar diet, the Clever Guts diet and the Fast 800. Since her death in 2024, she has established the Michael Mosley Memorial Research Fund; she also published a parenting guide called Eating Together and The Fast 800 Favorites; there is also the Fast 800 online weight loss program. She lives in Buckinghamshire and has four children.

What is your first memory?
Minesweeper at a cocktail party when I was about three. I got up at night and my parents found me drunk in the morning.

What trait do you deplore most about yourself?
Time blindness.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Arrogance.

Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you own? bought?
A garden chair from the Chelsea Flower Show. It was almost the price of a crappy little car.

What is your most precious possession?
My puppy. His name is Biscuit and he is a very bouncy cavapoo.

Describe yourself in three words
Optimistic, caring, curious.

What is your most unpleasant habit?
I sleepwalk. I wander around aimlessly, then go back to bed.

What do you dislike most about your appearance?
My nose could be neater.

What scares you about getting older?
Solitude.

What book are you ashamed of not having read?
War and Peace.

What did you want to do when you grew up?
A firefighter.

What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Michael.

What does love look like?
Connection, warmth, someone you can trust and, thankfully, say nothing to.

If you could change your past, what would you change?
I wouldn’t do it because everything is linked to everything else.

When was the last time you changed your mind about something important?
Six months ago I decided to move. I had a jump, dumped it all out and then thought, “Why am I doing this? So I stayed, and I’m glad I did.

What would you like to leave to your children?
That they were loved.

What thing could improve the quality of your life?
Michael.

What do you consider to be your greatest achievement?
My children.

Would you rather have more sex, money or fame?
Money.

How would you like to be remembered?
Have made people healthier and happier.

What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Be curious.

Tell us a joke
Someone told me that when I was five. When is a pot not a pot? When it is ajar.