Trinny Woodall quotes:

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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 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 hate trends, but I love fashion.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I think only a woman understands another woman's body.

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

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

So many people hide inside their clothes.

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

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.

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.

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 would never go out in track bottoms and a baggy T-shirt.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

A marriage can go wrong at any time.

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 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.