Trinny Woodall Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Trinny Woodall:
You don't find women with great confidence dressed as if they don't care.
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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.
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I'd never have a facelift, as I have never seen one that looks good.
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I'd love to say fashion faux pas differ from country to country, but they don't.
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I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.
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I literally change on the shop floor. I just stand there in my knickers sometimes.
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There were times when rehab and the halfway house were very, very tough, but I never felt that I wanted to leave.
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It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.
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Every morning, I have a drink of spinach, blueberry, celery, carrot and Gillian McKeith energy food with linseed.
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Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.
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In some ways, I'm slightly like a single parent, so I need to be able to provide for my family.
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I enjoy waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Who do I want to be today?'
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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.
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To me, a yummy mummy is a mum in her twenties, like Donna Air.
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I came to London when I was 16 and lived with my older sister.
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A Joan Crawford dress looks really good on an hourglass figure.
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I grew up in a very normal home.
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English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes.
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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.
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I know I am not the worst-dressed person.
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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.
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If you want to make the best of yourself, you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.
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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.
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I will admit I am quite obsessive about the world of anti-ageing.
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To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word.
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The days of red carpet disasters are kind of over.
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If you are heading for 60, people will flirt with you; if you are heading for 70, they won't.
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I felt so unbelievably ugly for years.
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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.
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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.
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I think only a woman understands another woman's body.
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A marriage can go wrong at any time.
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I've been nine stone for 20 years. I always eat what I want; it's not an issue for me.
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I was a very unconfident teenager. I wanted desperately to fit in.
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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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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.'
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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 would never go out in track bottoms and a baggy T-shirt.
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Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.
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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.
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I'm a mixture of untidy and anal.
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I've had these lips all my life, and I love them.
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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.
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The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.
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My pain threshold is quite high when it comes to vanity.
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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.
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I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.
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At school, I was only allowed four sweets every Wednesday, so I've developed an addiction.
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My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow.
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We all know what we don't like about our bodies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Diets are rubbish. I eat healthily, and often have a day when I stuff myself.
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So many people hide inside their clothes.
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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.
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Even my basic, basic wardrobe is still pathetically colour coordinated. It just is. That is just me.
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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.
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I had a strong faith that I would, eventually, have a baby.
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I've a big bum and chunky calves. My husband says I've got elephantiasis of the legs.
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I hate trends, but I love fashion.
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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.
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I'm not good at cutting off from work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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