Quotes from Jasmine Guinness

Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?

Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics.

Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.

The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles.

Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.

It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

It's all very well setting up your own brand of face cream or exercise wear - but Christ, it's so shallow.

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

I always dress scruffily, but at weekends I live in muddy Wellies.

I don't believe in diets, as I always put whatever I lost right back on again. I think we should all just eat healthily and get as much exercise as we can.

Being mum is a number one job. That takes priority.

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.

My husband is experimental, loves to cook, and is really good at it. If I do the cooking, I lose my appetite. Why is that?

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country and wildlife noises.

I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes.

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.

I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.

I hate my hair! When clean, it is fuzzy, and when not clean, it is lank.

We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.

It's really hard work being a model.

It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.