Myskow was born in St Andrews in Fife Scotland to a Polish officer father and a Scottish school teacher mother.
[1] Her parents moved to South Africa after World War II and she attended Wykeham Collegiate School in Pietermaritzburg, where she learned to speak Afrikaans.
[2] She moved back to Scotland with her family at the age of 15 attending Bell Baxter High School in Cupar.
The Sunday People and Myskow, by then writing for the News of the World, lost a libel action brought by the actress Charlotte Cornwell in December 1985.
In an article for the People, Myskow had referred to Cornwell as ugly and middle-aged, and written that her "bum is too big".