Kim's Wilde about life

For Kim Wilde, approaching 33, life has never been so good. Fitter and happier than ever, her thirties are proving to be her liberation.
"I've never felt so great", she says. "I think you spend loads of time in your twenties doing things that you feel you're supposed to do. Now I'm the person I wish I could have been five years ago."
But life didn't look so great when she said goodbye to her twenties in a blaze of unflattering newspaper pictures of bloated cheeks and triple chins. "It was really humiliating and it hurt me", she says. "But it did give me energy to do something about it".
The crunch came after she moved out of London and back to Hertfordshire, 10 minutes from her parents.
"I had a wonderful party and everything seemed brilliant. But the day after I thought 'this isn't how life is supposed to be.' I thought that when I got to 30 I'd be married with kids, not on my own. It seemed all the dreams I'd had were not coming true. I got very bitter for a while."
But she came fighting - and set about putting her life back in order. The long hours of step aerobics are obvious. Dressed in flares and platforms she is a cross between Jessica Rabbit and Hippy Chick. "I never exercised regularly before I was 30. Now I've got addicted to the way that my body feels." One person who takes no notice of her pop star status is her boyfriend of eight months, Rupert Kenyon, 22. He is a student, and introduced himself by barging up to her at the skiresort of Val d'Isere and singing a parody of Kids in America.
Kim laughs. "He showed every sign of being a yob. But my antenna went up and I thought, 'He's good'."
She dismisses the potential problem of a 10-year age gap. "To me age has never been relevant. He has a great outlook on life."
For the moment children are not on Kim's agenda.
"I would love kids but I have faith in that happening at the right time with the right person."
Is Rupert a contender? "He would make a good father", she answers cautiously. "He's not selfish."