'I'm still a feminist' says Spice Girl

Christian Horner and Geri Halliwell at Wimbledon. Photo / Getty Images

As a Spice Girl, she became a feminist icon for a generation of independent young women.

But Geri Halliwell has revealed she is now content to shun the limelight and play the role of devoted wife and mother instead.

The 43-year-old - who married Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Christian Horner in May - says she is happy to have taken his surname and even to cook for him.

In an exclusive interview in Event magazine, Mrs Horner says: "I do cook for him, I do like to see that he's happy."

"When I go to the Formula 1 races, I'm not about all the glamour. I've been there and done that. I never thought I'd meet the man who I knew I would be with always. I can be myself with him, I can breathe out. I don't ever want to get divorced."

Geri - who has a nine-year-old daughter, Bluebell, with former boyfriend, screenwriter Sacha Gervasi - insists she is not betraying her feminist principles.

"I believe in equality but I'm proud to be a wife and this is me saying I believe in the union of marriage and everything that goes with it," she says.

"I want to share his name. I want me and Christian and Bluebell to have the same name, to be our family."

And she claims she doesn't miss life in the public eye, adding, "Sometimes the best thing is just hanging out together at home doing absolutely nothing, just eating or watching telly. That's really nice."

- Mail on Sunday