Sandie Shaw reshapes those famous feet

But while millions of fans loved Sandie Shaw's look, there was always something about her feet that she hated.

And Miss Shaw, who is now 60, has revealed she has just undergone a complex set of operations which will leave her bedridden until October.

Yesterday, she said she chose to have the work done simply to beautify her unsightly feet.

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She colourfully reveals details of the operation on her personal website and even includes pictures of her bedridden in hospital afterwards.

She writes: "I have always wanted beautiful feet; the kind that step out encased in dainty, diamante, strappy extravaganzas, that tick-tack across sun

dappled marble floors, and from which expensive champagne is drunk."

The singer, who won the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest with Puppet On A String and had a massive hit with (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me, says her misshapen feet were inherited rather than being the product of years of shoelessness.

Miss Shaw, a trained psychotherapist and practising Buddhist, is married to her third husband, Tony Bedford.

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She said: "My husband says that when I was being created the design team did a great job until they got down to my ankles when they were called off on another job and a clumsy apprentice was left to finish me off. It is ironic that I am so well known for singing barefoot."

She said she chose to have the operation to coincide with her 60th birthday: "I have always loved the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale, The Little Mermaid.

"Like her, I was willing to go through the pain to have lovely feet that could dance all night with the prince."

Speaking of the results, Miss Shaw went on: "When I was discharged I was issued with a pair of huge geisha-style shoes to heel-hobble on, a set of crutches to keep my balance, two condom-like rubber leg tubes to shower in and a selfpropelled wheelchair to get around Waitrose.

"I looked like the victim of an orthopaedic summer clearance sale.

"Two weeks later the nurse took off my dressings.

"The swollen, misshapen, yellow and bruised appendages on the ends of my legs were completely alien. I wanted my ugly old feet back.

"The nurse encouraged me to bond with my new feet, to massage, moisturise and get familiar with them. So I am doing just that, they are getting prettier every day and by October I will have a grand unveiling of the remodelled tootsies."