Trinny Woodall

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I grew up in a very normal home.

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

In some ways, I'm slightly like a single parent, so I need to be able to provide for my family.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

A marriage can go wrong at any time.

The days of red carpet disasters are kind of over.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

I felt so unbelievably ugly for years.

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

I'd love to say fashion faux pas differ from country to country, but they don'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.

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.

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 think only a woman understands another woman's body.

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

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

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

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

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

So many people hide inside their clothes.

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.

Don't look at your legs and think: 'They're fat.' Think: 'These things carry me around all day, and I don't have arthritis. Oh, and I've got great ankles.'

I'm not good at cutting off from work.

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.

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

I will admit I am quite obsessive about the world of anti-ageing.

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.

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.

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.