Twenty-five years separate these images of Olympic gold medallist Denise Lewis – but can you tell which is which? If anything, mother-of-four Denise looks better, stronger and more glamorous at 52 in the picture on the right. It recreates her pose in a famous photo taken after her heptathlon triumph at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 – an image which was hung in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Denise, president of UK Athletics, says replicating the picture made her realise the passing decades have made her 'a woman who understands herself more'. Looking at the images for You magazine, she says: 'Even though I was at the height of my career in Sydney, there's been so much growth since. 'That image shows my body at its most powerful. I still feel powerful but in a different way. The strength comes from the journey. I'm 52 and feel better than ever.' Denise, brought up by her mother in Wolverhampton, is said to have separated from her husband, music mogul Steve Finan O'Connor, as The Mail on Sunday reported last year. She did not wear her wedding ring as she presented the BBC's Olympic coverage last summer and friends say he has moved out of the family home in Buckinghamshire. Both were devastated by the death last year of One Direction's Liam Payne, who Steve managed and who Denise called 'a very firm family friend'. She says her new book, Adaptability: Seven Lessons to Thrive in a World of Competing Demands, is part memoir and part self-help handbook.