Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell-Horner has always had her finger on the cultural pulse. Now, as she turns 50, she’s blazing a trail for older women – and is more committed than ever to empowering others.
Meeting Geri Horner (née Halliwell) for the first time is a disarming experience. For so many of us she’s an iconic figure: as one-fifth of the Spice Girls, the world’s most successful female group of all time, she is remembered as the boldest, most outspoken of the ballsy young women who brought girl power to the world in the nineties.
Sitting opposite me today, though, at an outdoor café in the grounds of stately Kenwood House, north London, is a low-key, thoughtful, incredibly polite woman. A youthful, almost boyish figure in white jeans, cream cashmere top, Alexander McQueen trainers (with chewed tongue courtesy of her rescue dog Daisy) and baseball cap, beneath which is tucked her trademark auburn hair, she passes mostly unrecognised by the other customers.
Sitting opposite me today, though, at an outdoor café in the grounds of stately Kenwood House, north London, is a low-key, thoughtful, incredibly polite woman. A youthful, almost boyish figure in white jeans, cream cashmere top, Alexander McQueen trainers (with chewed tongue courtesy of her rescue dog Daisy) and baseball cap, beneath which is tucked her trademark auburn hair, she passes mostly unrecognised by the other customers.
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