Karen Danczuk on marriage split from Labour MP: ‘I feel like the new Bridget Jones’

Since Karen Danczuk announced her split from her husband Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP, she has been embroiled in a bitter row with him over the reasons for their parting of ways. Happily, in recent weeks this has cooled, as they try to put their differences aside for the sake of their children. Not that this means the ‘selfie queen’ is about to become a wallflower. The former Labour councillor has started a blog — titled ‘Selfie Made Woman’ — in which she offers readers an insight into her deepest thoughts. And while the Mirror reported earlier in the week that she faces bailiffs after ignoring a court order concerning rent, Danczuk has decided to focus on another issue at hand: her worries ahead of her first girls’ night out:

‘I feel like the new Bridget Jones. I’ve had all the awkward conversations, I’ve had the sympathetic looks and recently when I went to take my boy out on a rowing boat, the sales assistants felt so sorry for me they upgraded my boat to an engine one.