She has shown us the secrets of her bed in all their embarrassing glory - and now a "confessional" quilt by artist Tracey Emin has gone on display.
The Victoria and Albert Museum is hosting an exhibition exploring the British tradition of quilt making over the centuries, which has been used to shock and inform as well as comfort.
Works range from a late 17th-century cot cover to provocative bedspreads by contemporary artists like Ms Emin and Grayson Perry.
The display features the first showing in the UK of Ms Emin's 2002 work To Meet My Past, described by the museum as "confessional" and in the tradition of quilts being used to record memories.
The installation uses traditional floral prints and comprises a painted brass bed with stitched blankets and cotton sheets, curtains and a duvet.
A cheery background of pink flowers has been emblazoned with the words: "weird sex".
Ms Emin has inscribed the cover: "To meet my past". One cushion contains the appliquéd sentence: "I cry in a world of sleep" and another begs: "Please God don't do this to me".
She has scrawled on the bedsheet: "I cannot believe I was afraid of ghosts," signing it "Tracey Emin 1969-1974".
Ms Emin was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999 for her work My Bed, which revealed intimate details of her life and featured detritus including alcohol bottles, old cigarette butts and stained sheets.
Also on display, Mr Perry's Right to Life (1993) inverts the quilt's role of providing comfort, showing an ornate textile pattern of a foetus.
Mr Perry has described his quilt as a comment on the abortion debate in the United States in the 1990s.
He was quoted in The Independent as saying: "We are born and we die and we make love under a quilt."
Another cover has been designed and created for the exhibition by the all-male quilting group from HMP Wandsworth.
The quilt was made in collaboration with the charity Fine Cell Work, which teaches needlework skills in prisons.
Quilts from other museums have been loaned to the V&A, including one made in 1841 from the National Gallery of Australia. The quilt was created by women convicts aboard the HMS Rajah as they were being transported to Van Dieman's Land, now known as Tasmania.
Personal diaries and keepsakes relating to the quilts and their makers are also on display.
A silk and ribbon cot quilt from Deal Castle (1690-1720) in Kent is being shown in public for the first time with the maker's diary written in code.
The quilt was made by Priscilla Redding, daughter of the governor of Deal Castle.
Another, signed by Ann West and dated 1820, shows biblical scenes and may have been intended as an educational device for children, the museum said.
A cover signed John and Elisabeth Chapman (1829) was believed to be a marriage commemoration containing a stitched love poem.
But curators discovered that the poem is in fact an epitaph written in the 1790s in response to the macabre tale of a man named Dr Vanbutchel.
On the death of his wife, Dr Vanbutchel allegedly had her body embalmed and displayed in his front room where he charged people to see her, according to the museum.
He was said to only continue to receive her dowry for as long as she remained above ground.