Writing
Winkleman started her journalism career as a travel writer, with columns about her various worldwide excursions. She did so in The Sunday Times and The Independent, but also contributed to the free daily London paper Metro in a similar capacity. As her television career - and family - evolved, she travelled less, and began to write more general work, opinion-led Lifestyle journalism about womanhood, sex and relationships. She wrote for Cosmopolitan and Tatler amongst others.
Between 2005 and 2008, she wrote a regular Wednesday column for The Independent called Take It From Me, collating her various musings on the lighter sides of current affairs, celebrity news and anecdotes concerning her own life. These were mostly tongue-in-cheek diatribes on the shortcomings of men, and the pitfalls of juggling a professional life with that of being a mother. Her column often angled towards the more irritating aspects of life, with her husband regularly the subject of loving scorn. In 2007, this resulted in her husband writing her column instead, as something of a retaliation, though he did this only once.
On 9 April 2008, Winkleman wrote in The Independent about her having read this Wikipedia article when scouring the Internet looking for something to write about. In the column, she denied speculation previously included here that she was to have a third baby - she put her perceived new bulge down to the fact that she had not "... pasta from my world". She wrote of typing her name into Google and looking at this entry on Wikipedia. She was perturbed by the knowledge that there was any speculation that she was pregnant, when she wasn't, and - having rejected ideas from her friend Lucy that it was "...to do with the dress" or that "...they'd got her mixed up with Kate Thornton" - decided that the best course of action was to "have a slice of cake and a cup of tea".
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