Fashion expert Trinny Woodall is eagerly anticipating her sixties. The style maven, who celebrated her landmark birthday earlier this year, has finally discovered a "balance" in life after experiencing a turbulent time in her twenties, establishing a TV career in her thirties, and confronting personal tragedies in the subsequent decades.
Speaking on ITV's Lorraine, she shared with guest host Ranvir Singh: "I was 60 in February. By far, it is my best decade. If I had to break down my decades, twenties were s*****. And it was about not knowing who I was, lots of people in their twenties, it can be complicated. My thirties were about catching up and getting a career.
"Forties was being a mum. I was a mum later, and I never thought I'd be a mum. Fifties was dealing with things that happened. My daughter's father died, and I had to learn how to be a single mum. And having to create the balance of life."
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Trinny, who was married to Johnny Ellichoff from 1999 until 2009 and shares a 20-year-old daughter Lyla with him but he tragically took his own life in 2014, is most recognised for hosting 'What Not To Wear' in the early 2000s alongside Susannah Constantine. She reflected that the show's success was due to its focus on dressing for the everyday person rather than concentrating solely on fashion.
She explained: "We had, for the ladies who can remember on the show, we had Jeff Banks on The Clothes Show. And there was nothing. We had a column in The Telegraph, and they said 'Could we make it a show?' It had that element of what you should wear and what you should not wear. It was based on this column of what is good for a body shape, and it was always that basis.
"There had been before a little bit of fluff fashion and this was about dressing, not fashion. It was 'How do you dress for you are?' and not for someone off the catwalk.'"
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