“Proud of my wrinkles”: Twiggy’s guide to ageing gracefully
Twiggy first exploded onto the modelling industry when she was crowned “The Face Of 1966”. The icon has since developed a stellar career and was even made a dame in 2019.
Despite her rapid rise to fame (her photo was spotted by a fashion journalist) and her trusty address book full of celebrity contacts, the '60s icon remains grounded as she shared her love for the “ordinary things”.
“We’ve all met people in the entertainment business who are kind of flying, they’re not quite with the world, are they? And that’s not me,” she said in an interview for the Daily Mail.
“I love going to the supermarket, just ordinary things. I love my job, but my life is real life with Leigh and my kids, my grandkids, my friends”.
Twiggy, whose real name is Lesley Hornby, is a proud grandmother who clearly loves going by adorable nicknames as she prefers to be called “mimi” instead of grandma.
When speaking about her grandchildren, her face lights up. The former model has two biological grandchildren from her daughter, Carly, and three step-grandchildren from her partner, Leigh Lawson’s son, Jason.
“He’s got three now, so when we get a houseful, it is noisy. But I love it. It’s what life’s about, isn’t it?” she said.
Twiggy also proudly shared how different her life as “mimi” looks. The usually glammed up star said that in her day-to-day life she is usually bare-faced, with a ponytail.
“That’s me when I’m out and about. Sunglasses, hair just pulled under a baseball cap,” she said.
Unlike other stars who may have opted to go under the knife, Twiggy is proud of her natural look.
“I’m kind of proud of my wrinkles,” she said.
“I understand when people have little tweaks and maybe I’ll even do it, I don’t know.
“But what I don’t think I’d ever do is all the stuff they inject, when they get those funny cheeks that look like cotton wool balls have been stuffed in them. It would frighten me,” she shared.
She also shared how she embraces ageing by never getting botox.
“It’s botulism, isn’t it?” she said of the procedure.
“And I never fancied the idea of that floating round my body."
She also said that she does Pilates once-a-week which helped her eliminate back pain, which had plagued her since she turned 60.
Twiggy’s life story is going to be told for the first time in a documentary made by actor-turned-filmmaker Sadie Frost, with the final footage for the film taken just last week at the Cannes Film Festival.
In September a Twiggy musical, Close Up, written and directed by Ben Elton is set to be released.
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