Personal Life
Chisholm has been open about her battles with clinical depression and an eating disorder, which she has experienced several times during her life.
Her younger half-brother Paul O'Neill is a racing driver. She has 11 tattoos on her body. She was in a relationship with property developer Thomas Gordon Starr whom she met in 2002 during a holiday in Barbados. They separated in July 2012.
On 22 February 2009, Chisholm gave birth to a baby girl at the Portland Hospital in London. The baby weighed 3.7 kg (8 lbs 3oz) and was named Scarlet Starr.
Chisholm also has a £1 million country home at Catbrook, outside Chepstow, Monmouthshire.
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