How old is thelma from gypsy

I know it sounds wrong but I thoroughly enjoyed it; I mixed with people I would never have met normally and I saw the other sides to their stories. Thelma started claiming benefits after the break down of her marriage 17 years ago. While still receiving benefits to look after her then three children Thelma started a business making old-fashioned Christening dresses with two rolls of fabric bought for her by her aunt. Soon her creative designs were getting noticed and the business started to take off while Thelma continued to claim.

She ended up serving four months of the one year sentence after being caught out several years later. Go-to designer: Dressmaker Thelma has forged a special relationship with the traveller community - thanks in part to her experience in jail, she said.

She says now that being separated from her children and long-term partner was the hardest part of the experience. Thelma told the Observer:. Now she puts all her energy in to making her dressmaking business a success after becoming the go-to designer for the travelling community.

And she admits that her spell in prison and subsequent ability to empathise with the Gypsy women who crave her outlandish designs is the one of the keys to her success as a business woman.

She says 'I only served four months but it was the making of me. They get knocked from pillar to post. Yes, there are a few bad ones, like any group in society, but most of them are decent people. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Argos AO.

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I called it a day when I found out he was having an affair. Yet the end of her marriage was the start of her wedding dress empire.

When I put them up for sale on my stall it created a gypsy swarm. In she was found guilty and sentenced to a year in jail. W HILE in prison Thelma, who had left school at 16 with seven O-levels, signed up to do business, education and computer courses and taught other women to sew. It was the perfect time to focus on me. In , after four months, she was freed and went back to her stall which had been run by her assistant. Now with regular appearances on My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, Thelma is famous and remains grateful to her traveller customers for making her the woman she is today.

Today she takes life one gigantic dress at a time.