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" 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. "

Trinny Woodall

People

America

Family

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

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I Am

Hate

" 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. "

" 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. "

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You

" I know I am not the worst-dressed person. "

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I Am

" 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. "

Trinny Woodall

Good Food

Good

" I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all. "

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

" Shorts are practically a uniform in every woman's closet. Tailored shorts are okay for running around, and if you're 18, you can get away with cut-offs. But it's very easy to make a mistake with shorts. "

" Classically posh girls like Victoria Hervey are now trying to be Hollywood girls. Hollywood girls are trying to be posh girls. Everything is all mixed up, turned on its head. "

" I think only a woman understands another woman's body. "

" To me, a yummy mummy is a mum in her twenties, like Donna Air. "

" 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. "

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

" A Joan Crawford dress looks really good on an hourglass figure. "

" I would advise women not to be shy about admitting they've had Botox - it just shows you want to look your best, and there's nothing wrong with that. "

" You don't find women with great confidence dressed as if they don't care. "

" The days of red carpet disasters are kind of over. "

" If you are heading for 60, people will flirt with you; if you are heading for 70, they won't. "

" 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. "

Trinny Woodall

Clothes

Fashion

" 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. "

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

Trinny Woodall

Basic

Wardrobe

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've been nine stone for 20 years. I always eat what I want; it's not an issue for me. "

" 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. "