The TV favourite opens up about a deeply personal battle which once saw her plunge into despair.

Whenever friends phoned to inquire what she was up to, the consummate performer found herself doing what she could do best – acting through the pain. And certainly no-one would have been aware Rebecca could head out the front door, her perfect “mask” firmly in place, only after taking a Valium pill.

Some 15 years later, the happily married mother-of-one has revealed to Mindfood magazine she is now in a very different head space. At 46, having tackled her private demons and memories of a profoundly traumatic childhood, the Packed To The Rafters favourite has found a new level of contentment – an emotional equilibrium she once never thought possible.

Although Rebecca does still suffer from the occasional panic attack, she knows what to do when they strike. As for the bouts of depression, they appear to be well and truly in her past. Through it all, the beautiful blonde has learned not to take anything in life for granted.

“When you’re in a black hole, when you’ve been in the pit, you don’t want to go back there. And I’m so glad that rage is gone… that intense rage,” Rebecca reveals during a stunning photo shoot for this month’s issue of Mindfood.

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Pauline Hanson’s most ardent followers, her children, reveal that behind the passionate politician is a fun-loving mum who makes them cringe with her karaoke.

But it isn’t the fiery redhead’s outspoken politics and controversial persona that leave her four kids cringing. Instead, the 56-year-old former fish-and-chip shop owner reveals they turn decidedly red-faced when she takes centre stage for less-political purposes.

“There was one time when we were at an Irish pub on the Sunshine Coast and we were with some friends who wanted me to get up for karaoke,” Pauline tells Woman’s Day. “I had no choice in the end because they announced me and everyone else at the pub was like, ‘Yes, let’s get Pauline Hanson up’ – so I had to do it. But afterwards, [my daughter] Lee said, ‘I was just so embarrassed, I was sitting there thinking, Oh, my mum, what’s she doing up there?’. “I didn’t even know the song at the time,” Pauline adds. “It was the Tina Turner song, Nut Bush Cracker… what is it?… Nutbush City Limits? See, I still don’t know!”

There’s a collective groan from Pauline’s children – sons Tony Zagorski and Steven Hanson, to her first husband Walter Zagorski, and son Adam and daughter Lee, to second husband Mark Hanson – as they relive the memory. According to Lee, 27, music and her mum can often be an embarrassing combination, and never more so than during her twirl on TV’s Dancing With The Stars in 2004.

“I remember Mum getting up and attempting to dance on live TV and me sitting there going, ‘Aww, no! Aww, no, Mum!’” she says. “When she’d get off she’d ask, ‘How did I do?’. I’d say, ‘Oh, you did really well’, but I’d be thinking, Don’t get up there and dance again next week. So of course she made it all the way through to the final!

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The star’s journals give a glimpse into her thoughts and her tumultuous life.

“I’ve been journaling since I was 15,” she writes in the latest issue of O: The Oprah Magazine. But it’s taken until now for Oprah, 57, to share such personal thoughts with the world.

“It’s a wonder that I’ve managed to be a successful human being considering how pathetic I appeared in many of my daily musings,” she says, reflecting on her handwritten entries. “It’s a testament to growth and grace that I’ve come this far… I used my journals as therapy. Oh, the time I wasted worrying about men and weight!”

Oprah certainly isn’t afraid to let readers see the vulnerability in her journals. She is shockingly honest about her love-life, with her insecurities laid bare in emotional entries. The most startling are from her twenties, in what Oprah describes as “my 3-D years, when I was delusional, in denial and damaged”.

During a tumultuous period in her life when she’s admitted to dabbling in drugs, she seems to spend every moment obsessing over men. In an entry dated May 17, 1981, she was in a difficult relationship and talks about how powerless her boyfriend makes her feel. “I want to die… I wish for something to put an end to this madness,” she writes.

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What is the real secret behind Ms Aniston’s ever-youthful appearance?

But was the new ’do simply a distraction from more subtle changes Jen, 42, desperately wants to keep secret? Our insiders say so.“She cut her hair and changed the shape a bit to distract attention from the changes she has made to her face in the form of injections,” claims one source close to the actress.

A trip to the salon is a common Hollywood diversion from plastic surgery, according to another insider, who says, “Celebs will change their hair colour and style to distract observers from changes they have made to their face.”

“With each passing year, combined with the fact she’s got less body fat than ever, Jennifer’s face had lost that youthful roundness,” our source says. Now, snapped at the Madrid premiere, super-slim Jen’s face suddenly appears noticeably fuller.

“She’s had [wrinkle filler] Radiesse injected in two key areas and Botox injected in another part,” claims our source (see right). “It’s strategically done to look natural, subtle, with no telltale scars that may trace back to surgery.” Adds Sydney cosmetic surgeon Dr Kourosh Tavakoli of Luxe Medispa, “This is commonly called a liquid facelift.”And that’s not all…

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