I've spent £500,000 on my appearance hoping to find love. But now at 63 I'm single, mired in debt and living in one room because I can't afford my gas bill: KATE MULVEY | Daily Mail Online

As I zip myself into a new Diane von Furstenberg silk shift, slip into a pair of Manolos and walk through a mist of my favourite Jo Malone perfume, I look in the mirror and smile.