Trinny Woodall Quotes

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

I'm not good at cutting off from work.

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

Every morning, I have a drink of spinach, blueberry, celery, carrot and Gillian McKeith energy food with linseed.

The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.

I find it easy to dress other women, but when it comes to myself, I find it very difficult. I used to have no particular interest in clothes. Now I enjoy it more and pay much more care and attention. But I do get it wrong lots of times, and I'm like every other woman: learning from experience.

As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.

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.

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.

There were times when rehab and the halfway house were very, very tough, but I never felt that I wanted to leave.

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'm a mixture of untidy and anal.

The days of red carpet disasters are kind of over.

I came to London when I was 16 and lived with my older sister.

I hate trends, but I love fashion.

My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow.

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

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

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

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.

I'm having to learn to get the balance right, because if you want a full-time career, and you also want to be a mother who is there for your child, then you have to make sure that when you do spend time together, you're really there for them.

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.

I felt so unbelievably ugly for years.

I love the idea of cooking, but I don't like using recipe books, so I'll put a mish-mash together, and it might be amazing by total accident, or it will be a catastrophe.

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

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

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

To me, it is like a diabetic with insulin. If that diabetic stops taking insulin, they will die, and I believe that if I don't follow the 12-step programme, I will regress, and that could eventually be the death of me.

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

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.

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 grew up in a very normal home.

I've had these lips all my life, and I love them.

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

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.

I look at younger girls and I think, 'Doesn't she look great? Isn't she pretty?' And while I know I'll never be there again, I'm past the age of feeling jealous. Maybe in my 30s I would have been, but that part of my life has gone.

The mantra is forget your size discover your shape and transform yourself.

To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word.

So many women buy these boxy, shapeless jackets. I always tell them to buy a jacket one size too small to get the right fit.

I know I am not the worst-dressed person.

If you want to make the best of yourself, you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.

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

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.

A marriage can go wrong at any time.