Holly, Mum of 3, Richmond

I’m a makeup artist, for 15 years now, varying from children’s face painting, to movies, to fashion & prosthetics as well. I then had loads of children and was basically tied to the house & I just couldn’t go on a set for months at a time & found myself from doing fairly well in my industry to literally stuck at home on benefits going ‘oh my god, what’s happened to me.’ I thought this was crazy and that there must be something that I could do where I could get paid lots of money and use my skills & get job satisfaction, so, here I am.”