Trinny Woodall
Trinny Woodall
TrinnyWoodall is a British fashion and make-over advisor, designer, television presenter and author. She was privately educated. After ten years working in marketing – Woodall met Susannah Constantine in 1994, whom she joined to write a weekly fashion column for The Daily Telegraph. This led to the launch of their own internet fashion-advice business and the release of their first fashion-advice book...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth8 February 1964
country faux love
I'd love to say fashion faux pas differ from country to country, but they don't.
amazing love might recipe total using
I love the idea of cooking, but I don't like using recipe books, so I'll put a mish-mash together, and it might be amazing by total accident, or it will be a catastrophe.
age companies perhaps tv women
Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.
energy kids older run slightly younger
I want to feel I have the energy I will need as an older mother having a younger baby. It's really important that when I'm 51, and my daughter is 10, that I feel I can still run around and do things with her, and feel the energy of a slightly younger woman having their kids at school.
balance learn spend sure time
I'm having to learn to get the balance right, because if you want a full-time career, and you also want to be a mother who is there for your child, then you have to make sure that when you do spend time together, you're really there for them.
size shapes forget-you
The mantra is forget your size discover your shape and transform yourself.
thinking self-worth clothes
As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.
want stuff needs
If you want to make the best of yourself you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.
new-york godmother three
The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.
children self careers
Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.
sometimes shops knickers
I literally change on the shop floor. I just stand there in my knickers sometimes.
fashion hate trends
I hate trends, but I love fashion.
baby strong strong-faith
I had a strong faith that I would, eventually, have a baby.
eventually famous gave house mum trashed
When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.