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==Personal life== Whitbread wrote in her 2012 autobiography that she began a personal relationship with Andy Norman shortly after his divorce in 1986.<ref name=SURV/>{{rp|242β244}} In 1997, Whitbread married Norman in [[Copthorne, West Sussex]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Fatima fails in bid to be queen of jungle |url=http://www.eastgrinsteadcourier.co.uk/Fatima-fails-bid-queen-jungle/story-14079566-detail/story.html |website=East Grinstead Courier and Observer |access-date=4 August 2012 |date=8 December 2011 |archive-date=23 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323104609/http://www.eastgrinsteadcourier.co.uk/Fatima-fails-bid-queen-jungle/story-14079566-detail/story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The couple, who had a son together, divorced in 2006. Norman died of a heart attack in 2007.<ref>{{cite news |title=Former Olympian Fatima Whitbread: I'd love to dress up and do Strictly Come Dancing |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/former-olympian-fatima-whitbread-id-3340624 |website=Liverpool Echo |date=7 May 2013 |access-date=12 June 2022 |archive-date=30 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141130041113/http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/former-olympian-fatima-whitbread-id-3340624 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Rodda |first=John |title=Andy Norman |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/sep/28/guardianobituaries.obituaries |website=The Guardian |date=28 September 2007 |access-date=12 June 2022 |archive-date=5 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105144643/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/sep/28/guardianobituaries.obituaries |url-status=live }}</ref> Whitbread has published two autobiographies written with Adrianne Blue, ''Fatima: The Autobiography of Fatima Whitbread'' in 1988, and ''Survivor: The Shocking and Inspiring Story of a True Champion'' in 2012.<ref name="FWAUTO"/><ref name=SURV>{{cite book |last1=Whitbread |first1=Fatima |first2=Adrianne |last2=Blue |title=Survivor: The Shocking and Inspiring Story of a True Champion|year=2012|publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn= 978-0753540961}}</ref> Whitbread is a Christian but, in her own words, "not devout."<ref>{{cite web|title='It just made me realise that faith can in fact bring people together'|author=Dunn, Gemma|date=March 21, 2020|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend/it-just-made-me-realise-that-faith-can-in-fact-bring-people-together/39058788.html|work=[[Belfast Telegraph]]|access-date=11 February 2023|archive-date=11 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230211124926/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend/it-just-made-me-realise-that-faith-can-in-fact-bring-people-together/39058788.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
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