Loui Fish: Walking In My Choos (Paperback)

People love talking about Loui Fish. She has been called many things: social butterfly, party animal, sex kitten, flirt, and cougar. But to that list one can also add: gorgeous, successful, and witty. She is not to be underestimated – she is most definitely her own person, with a zest for life. Not many people can claim to have rubbed shoulders with Victoria and David Beckham or boast Jimmy Choo as a personal friend or George Michael as a former neighbour.

In her revealing autobiography, Walking in My Choos, she recounts how, as a child, she had always wanted to marry a rock star. Early in her adult life there was a brief dalliance with Steve Hofmeyr. James Small took her out of the Boland, but in return she was introduced to his temper and his fists. Eventually she married the love of her life, Mark Fish, and became part of a social group known as Footballers’ Wives – women to whom the labels on their underwear are as important as the cars they drive.

This is a tale of passion, violence and love. Of haute couture and life in the fast lane. But it is also the story of a vulnerable woman who ultimately realises that money only gets you so far, and that all the glory and admiration can’t guarantee happiness. Does it really matter what everyone else says?

“Why am I writing my story? I am not a victim. I am not a bad person. I am just a girl who fell in love with a young man. Who might still be in love with him. But I’m not 24 anymore. I was married for almost 11 years. And why are we not married anymore? Well, as my icon once remarked in an interview with Martin Bashir: ‘It was getting a little crowded.’ Like me, she was referring to her marriage. She was known as Princess Diana.”