Quotes from Trinny Woodall

For me as an individual, it's important that I have a career as a role model for my children, that I earn my own money, and I spend it prudently and imprudently.

Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.

I had a strong faith that I would, eventually, have a baby.

I enjoy waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Who do I want to be today?'

We all know what we don't like about our bodies.

I've a big bum and chunky calves. My husband says I've got elephantiasis of the legs.

My first proper job was as a commodities broker. I went off to work every morning in an '80s power suit. I couldn't afford a good one, so I'd buy nice buttons instead and make it look better than it actually was.

Even my basic, basic wardrobe is still pathetically colour coordinated. It just is. That is just me.

English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes.

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.

At school, I was only allowed four sweets every Wednesday, so I've developed an addiction.

I am very precise about what food I like. I'm very much a nursery-food person, and really hate chichi dishes.

Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

Diets are rubbish. I eat healthily, and often have a day when I stuff myself.

I'd never have a facelift, as I have never seen one that looks good.

I was a very unconfident teenager. I wanted desperately to fit in.

I'd love to say fashion faux pas differ from country to country, but they don't.

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 I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

I literally change on the shop floor. I just stand there in my knickers sometimes.

I think I'm very focused and am quite a good multitasker, and I'm quite driven in knowing what my responsibilities are to my family and knowing what I've got to do to do that.

Many women are pear-shaped and tend to wear jeans that are too loose. They need to focus on what jeans will re-proportion their body.

My pain threshold is quite high when it comes to vanity.

The days of red carpet disasters are kind of over.