I did not leave my house for a decade

"I left school at 15, which most people did in those days, and got a job as a waitress, which I loved. The cafe was next door to a cinema where John worked as a projectionist. I knew from the moment we met he was terribly insecure. He had ginger hair, walked with a limp and had been badly bullied as a child. But I hoped my love would change him. We got married when I was 19, and a year later I gave birth to our first baby. By 28, I was a mother of six."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/30/i-didnt-leave-my-house-for-a-decade