How (Not) To Be Strong: The inspirational instant Sunday Times Bestseller

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With raw honesty, Alex tells us how she has overcome the greatest challenges of her life and reminds us that sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is to show your most vulnerable side to the world. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Alex also used the pages of her memoir to openly chat about her relationship with fellow football star Kelly Smith. But through sheer determination , and loads of courage she has fought her demons to get where she is now, and is a great role model for us all!

From the football cages of East London to broadcasting to millions, the engine powering Alex Scott’s remarkable journey has always been her resilience. Century's diverse non-fiction list includes Sunday Times bestseller Ross Kemp and autobiographies from major celebrities such as Rod Stewart, Peter Kay, Dawn French, James Corden, Eric Clapton and David Jason, and a broad range of exceptional non-fiction writing from authors such as Richard Bacon, Duncan Hamilton, and Christopher Sykes.The trolling and abuse that I got from what I was doing work-wise was just the part that pushed me, finally, into therapy. Alex is one of the UK's most in-demand presenters, appearing on The One Show, Children in Need, Sport Relief and the forthcoming The Real Games.

The former Arsenal captain and England centurion helped Arsenal achieve a domestic double of the FA Women’s Cup and the FA Women’s Premier League. In the book, Alex added a love letter to her mother, which she described as “a way to tell my mum, to kind of show her what she is and what she means to me. An inspirational memoir of finding strength and resilience from the former Arsenal captain and England Lioness.

With raw honesty, Alex shows how she’s tackled life’s challenges, in both her personal and professional life. From facing her tumultuous childhood to the abuse she has faced since appearing as a presenter including being told she should be at home doing the ironing and cooking. There was this underlying current that, somehow, playing in America meant we were getting too big for our boots.

I suppose now she knows my triggers, so when I'm pulling away and if I'm going through stuff, she's there. Some of the challenges Scott faces in her extraordinary push to always be “top tier” in everything that she turns her hand to are rooted in the impact of events from her childhood still resonating through her to this day, and are in some ways the driving motivation behind her success. The former Arsenal captain helped to achieve a domestic double of the FA Women's Cup and represented England in 140 appearances, retiring as the second most-capped England player across the men's and women's game. In her candid memoir How (Not) to Be Strong, she shares the lessons of a lifetime, from finally confronting the legacy of a tumultuous childhood to tarnished truths behind the gleaming football trophies. I love how reflective she is, she has clarity on how her upbringing and different events shaped her and I aspire to be self-aware throughout my life like that.Her struggles with verbalising and communication from a young age, how multiple people close to her struggled with alcoholism, her relationship and love for her mum. In How (Not) to Be Strong, Alex shares the lessons that have shaped her, from finally confronting the legacy of a tumultuous childhood to tarnished truth behind the gleaming football trophies. Bucking expectations is a recurring theme in Scott’s reflections on her life so far, beginning with her difficult early years growing up in a single-parent, working-class family living in a low-income area of east London. Alex revealed she has only recently learned how to be vulnerable and open about her challenging experiences from her past.