INTERVIEW RIN HAMBURGH PHOTOGRAPH LEANNE BRACEY
HAIR AND MAKE-UP: OLIVIA MCLEAN
From the age of five, I was constantly surrounded by fear – fear of being laughed at, fear of being put down, even fear of talking to people. It started when I was sent to boarding school. I used to wet the bed and, the first night it happened, I knocked on the nuns’ door to ask for help. Instead, they made me do the ‘walk of shame’, carrying a bundle of wet sheets through all the dormitories as they announced, ‘Make way for the bed-wetter,’ and encouraged the children to laugh and shout horrible things. That happened regularly.