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Dr Ateh Jewel spent decades building a career in beauty while being told to her face that her Black body was neither “luxurious” nor “aspirational.”

She joins Nasya Munga to discuss childhood insecurity, working four jobs at university, motherhood, 18-hour working days and the extraordinary contradiction of preparing to appear on This Morning while wondering whether she would need Universal Credit.

Ateh also opens up about the health crisis that forced her to confront how she was living, ending a 26-year relationship four days before launching her brand in Harrods, and why that launch felt like the biggest “F you” she could imagine.

A conversation about beauty, money, power, and redefining success when the life you have built is no longer working.