Jasmine Guinness
Jasmine Guinness
Jasmine Leonora Guinnesshas been a designer and a fashion model since 1994. She is also an heiress to the Guinness brewing fortune...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth28 September 1976
CountryIreland
politician grew grew-up
I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.
bogs mum delighted
Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'
delighted learnt paper total
I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.
wear
I try not to wear too much makeup, as I think there comes a point where too much makes you look older.
design line opportunity
I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.
appalling gets money paying personnel raised wasted
It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.
brought dead family knew met time
I knew nothing about my mum's family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brought up by two aunts, and she only ever met one uncle.
horrible
Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!'
assume line money people tend
People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.
assumed found income money people private rather
People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I was schlepping around London with no money, I found it rather irksome that people thought I had a private income when I didn't.
since trust worked
I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.
government
The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.
dreamt finally honeymoon lake marry nepal
I always dreamt that I would marry in the Piazza Del Campo in Siena and go on my honeymoon down the Amazon, up the Nile, on a gallop through the pyramids, to Nepal and Kerala, on a safari and finally to Lake Titicaca in Peru.
mine
It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.