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
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.
behave tv
When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.
Diets are rubbish. I eat healthily, and often have a day when I stuff myself.
high pain quite threshold
My pain threshold is quite high when it comes to vanity.
good hourglass joan
A Joan Crawford dress looks really good on an hourglass figure.
To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word.
I think only a woman understands another woman's body.
carrot drink food morning
Every morning, I have a drink of spinach, blueberry, celery, carrot and Gillian McKeith energy food with linseed.
addiction best bring chocolate delicious dinner half lots pudding sells sweet
Ottolenghi sells lots of delicious sweet things, but my daily addiction is their unbelievable dark chocolate salted caramel biscuits. They're the best things in the world - I go through half a packet every night. I bring them out after pudding at dinner parties.
absorb amazing conscious eat food good healer putting remembered vitamins
I'm very conscious about putting good food into my body. Years ago, I went to see an amazing healer called Allah, who could read your body. She told me that I can't absorb vitamins very well, and I have to eat the right things to get my vitamins. I've always remembered that.
people
If you are heading for 60, people will flirt with you; if you are heading for 70, they won't.
allowed developed sweets
At school, I was only allowed four sweets every Wednesday, so I've developed an addiction.
boarding dull feeling love particular remember time uniform
I can't remember a time when I didn't love fashion. As a child, I was always particular about what I'd wear. I remember feeling most aggrieved that I had to put on a dull uniform to go to boarding school.
took
I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.