Sometimes I might seem like a
ball-breaker on a shoot but, fundamentally, I'm in control of my image." Looking at those photos now and more recent, more demure but still gorgeous pictures it's a surprise to learn that Sam, who regularly topped sexiest women polls, has always struggled to love her looks.
Hermione Norris still fails to convince as secret service
ball-breaker.
AS Connie Beauchamp, Holby City's sassiest heart surgeon, actress Amanda Mealing has become known as a designer clad
ball-breaker. Some may even have called her a cow, but now she's preparing to take delivery of one.
The woman he married is a complicated, driven, difficult
ball-breaker and such a fantasist she can - as her ex-husband Alfie Karmal explained - barely distinguish fact from fiction.
Thank God, because I thought episode one was a tedious hour of predictable political sabre-rattling with lily-livered Brits and
ball-breaker Shaz making Condoleezza Rice look like Jemima in Play School.
But when the
ball-breaker and the ball-goer are thrown together as co-guardians of four-year-old orphan Emily, their parental responsibilities aren't all they have in common.
The lowdown: Lou Stoke is a fiery
ball-breaker who's so far steered clear of female prisons.
Bullied at school for not looking like a Barbie doll, it is ironic that Lucy is now infamous as a glamorous ice- cool
ball-breaker. But is she trying to tell us something with her choice of roles?
The all-female cast of seven is led by Hattie Ladbury as
ball-breaker Marlene.
"The good news is that I'm not the cliched
ball-breaker woman - we have a lot of fun between us too," says Pippa.
And to label your wife a
ball-breaker because she asks for a cuddle - well, poor diddums will have to do better than that.
Daniela is intelligent and sensitive - not a
ball-breaker like Anna.
There is often a "catch-22" for professional women: Either we're not aggressive enough, or we're "
ball-breakers." We must continue to be the primary caretakers of our homes and families, but we must also "lean in" at work to be respected.
My feelings about black men dating white women are forever colored by the existence of a racial and sexual caste system that views black women as
ball-breakers who are less-than-feminine, while white women are seen accommodating and physically desirable.