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.
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.
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.
buy english rather shop washing women
English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes.
brought call family moment months people plastic programme six spend ugly
In America, there's a programme called 'The Swan.' They take 12 ugly people and call them 'ugly ducklings.' They spend six months and have everything done - plastic surgery, teeth, everything. And then they have this moment where their family is brought in, and they are revealed. It's scary.
nine
I've been nine stone for 20 years. I always eat what I want; it's not an issue for me.
stories
I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.
dry glands
I went on Accutane, which is very strong. Your sebaceous glands dry up, you can't exercise, and you have very dry lips. But it was a miracle, and it worked.
botox half move
I judge when I need a top-up of Botox by looking in the mirror to see if I can move more than half my forehead.
dressed great women
You don't find women with great confidence dressed as if they don't care.