Published on Wednesday, 30 April 2008 19:00 | | 
Alongside mother's ruin, what about model's ruin? 80s icon Paula Hamilton has had a long battle with the bottle.
Model Paula Hamilton epitomised youthful beauty for me as a teen in the late 80s, says Clea Myers. Her image was summed up in the VW Golf ad: who needs a man, money, mink or indeed clothes, when you still have keys to the car? But underneath the so-called glamour, glitz and natural assets Hamilton was struggling with alcoholism, just like thousands of women in the UK today.
She has since made a come-back, having lost her modelling career to the bottle, and shares her experience of hope and the potential for change with Jonathan Owen.
