Trinny Woodall Quotes & Sayings

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. — Trinny Woodall

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. — Trinny Woodall

I think only a woman understands another woman's body. — Trinny Woodall

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. — Trinny Woodall

I would never go out in track bottoms and a baggy T-shirt. — Trinny Woodall

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. — Trinny Woodall

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

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. — Trinny Woodall

So many people hide inside their clothes. — Trinny Woodall

You don't find women with great confidence dressed as if they don't care. — Trinny Woodall

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

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. — Trinny Woodall

I know I am not the worst-dressed person. — Trinny Woodall

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.' — Trinny Woodall

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

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

Even my basic, basic wardrobe is still pathetically colour coordinated. It just is. That is just me. — Trinny Woodall

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

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. — Trinny Woodall

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. — Trinny Woodall

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

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

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. — Trinny Woodall

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. — Trinny Woodall

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

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

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

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

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. — Trinny Woodall

I'm not good at cutting off from work. — Trinny Woodall

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

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

I felt so unbelievably ugly for years. — Trinny Woodall

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

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

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

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

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. — Trinny Woodall

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. — Trinny Woodall

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

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

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

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

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. — Trinny Woodall

I'm a mixture of untidy and anal. — Trinny Woodall

To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word. — Trinny Woodall

English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes. — Trinny Woodall

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

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

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

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. — Trinny Woodall

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

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. — Trinny Woodall

A marriage can go wrong at any time. — Trinny Woodall

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. — Trinny Woodall

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. — Trinny Woodall

The days of red carpet disasters are kind of over. — Trinny Woodall

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

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. — Trinny Woodall

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

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. — Trinny Woodall

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

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

I grew up in a very normal home. — Trinny Woodall

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

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. — Trinny Woodall

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

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

I hate trends, but I love fashion. — Trinny Woodall

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