Ana\u00efs has never followed the pack. I\u2019ll say, \u201cYou could make a bit more effort,\u201d and she\u2019ll say, \u201cI\u2019m not a people-pleaser like you.\u201d I ended up in therapy because I spent so much of my life worrying about what other people think. She\u2019s one in a million, my daughter, and I couldn\u2019t be more proud of her.<\/p>\n
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The pair at Meg\u2019s home in north London, c\u20092009Camera Press\/trevor leighton<\/p>\n
Ana\u00efs<\/p>\n
How do you rebel against crazy parents? You become conservative, I guess. The character I most relate to is Saffy from Ab Fab. I was always saying, \u201cI\u2019ve got to do my homework,\u201d and Mum would say, \u201cNah, it\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
She is still a bit wild. Mum is a fashion girl through and through. But what makes me \u201cme\u201d are her different sides. When I was a kid she\u2019d help me back my horse out of his stable but she\u2019d also take me in a black cab to Bond Street to go shopping. I loved sitting on the floor while she tried on shoes in Prada.<\/p>\n
My mum is the most full-of-life person I know and she created a home full of joy and expression. Walking round Regent\u2019s Park when I was little, she\u2019d crouch next to the trees and rose bushes and point out where the fairies lived. She was childlike and so full of imagination. But I think her own insecurities distracted her from me. She worried too much about herself and what other people thought of her.<\/p>\n
The only time I felt really frustrated was during my education. Mum couldn\u2019t help me with difficult essays and I thought, \u201cIf only I had a parent who could, life would be easier.\u201d I remember going to a friend\u2019s house when I was applying for university. Her parents were devising a plan to get her the most Ucas points. I tried to explain this to my mum and dad and they were, like, \u201cWhat the f*** is a Ucas point?\u201d<\/p>\n
All my friends wanted to stay at my mum\u2019s because she was so fun and she\u2019d let us get up to mischief. She\u2019d overhear me saying I was planning to stay in and she\u2019d be, like, \u201cWhat do you mean you don\u2019t want to go to a party?\u201d And she\u2019d force me out of the door.<\/p>\n
The stamina of my parents and their friends in the Nineties was incredible. I know all the stories but I can\u2019t equate my parents with them, especially my dad, who stopped doing drugs before I was born. He was always a really great girl-dad. I was obsessed with One Direction and he made sure I got tickets.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m quite empathetic but at the beginning of my mum\u2019s menopause journey she was a f***ing nightmare. Very unpredictable, very angry. There was a lot of conflict. But as soon as she explained it I was able to stop letting it affect me personally. I\u2019ve got quite a stiff-upper-lip, self-soothing British boarding-school mentality. If I felt ill or homesick, I\u2019d talk myself out of it.<\/p>\n
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Our relationship is flipped in quite beautiful ways. She\u2019ll send me emails to check over; I\u2019ll call her if a friend sends me a slightly mean message. I don\u2019t have a people-pleaser bone in my body, so sometimes I need advice on damage control. My personality is more like my dad\u2019s, a bit standoffish, guarded, true to myself. I\u2019m working on being more flexible.<\/p>\n
I feel so privileged that nine times out of ten I\u2019ll walk into a film or fashion event and someone there will have known me since I was a kid. And that, I suppose, is the absolute hallmark of nepotism. But it wouldn\u2019t shock me if neither of my parents knew what I do. They don\u2019t understand that posting on social media can be a job. That\u2019s absolutely fine. I may have got to where I am because of my parents, but I\u2019ve sustained it by being authentically me.<\/p>\n
Noel and Liam Gallagher debut in The Sunday Times Rich List, ranked No 325=, with an estimated joint wealth of \u00a3375 million<\/p>\n
Strange habits<\/p>\n
Meg on Ana\u00efs
She always puts her thumbnail through her front tooth gap when she\u2019s thinking<\/p>\n
Ana\u00efs on Meg
My mum has the worst table manners in the whole world<\/p>\n
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