Trinny Woodall

I know I am not the worst-dressed person.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I grew up in a very normal home.

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.