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SHE’S GOT THE POWER

A PORTLY pepperpot, a tramp, a tart, a bimbo, a ditz, a predator . . . the list of insults that have been lobbed her way is long and nasty.

Women jeered at her, men leered at her and lewd jokes at her expense came thick and fast.

Monica Lewinsky was the White House intern with President Bill Clinton’s DNA on her blue dress and that was how she was destined to be remembered.

She once described herself as “the most humiliated person on Earth”, and for years she couldn’t imagine having anything resembling a normal existence.

But Monica managed to turn things around, take charge of her story and reclaim her life. At the age of 50

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