I'm often mistaken for a man.

Winter is my favourite season.

I'm bad at rationalisation - very bad.

I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.

I knew I'd made it when my face appeared on a stamp.

I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.

I enjoy travelling the world, but nowhere beats Walsall.

As a model, part of my job is to be critiqued physically.

I have a regular cleansing, toning and moisturising routine.

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?

Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

I am the world's laziest shopper, but very rarely have I had to take anything back.

I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.

I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!

I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.

It's a very intimate thing to invite someone into your home; there's a lot of trust involved.

It makes me cross when I hear people say, 'It's so last season.' I always say, 'It's vintage.'

In my career, which has been fairly two-dimensional, people make decisions based on your persona.

I've enjoyed many camping holidays with my sister and her children, but we're pretty posh campers.

I lead a very busy life and don't have a lot of time, so my skincare needs to be easy and portable.

My hair is an untidy bob. I am very dark, but I embellish the roots because I am white in one clump.

I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze time.

I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.

It's not about hiding your imperfections on a shoot; it's about embracing them and being unapologetic about them.

For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.

I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.

For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.

In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.

It's a big shame that when you have a platform to write about Save the Children, the media interest lies with my moral alignment.

In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.

We won't get economic growth if we don't look after our mothers and the potential of the next generation. They need to be prioritised.

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore are both favourites.

I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.

Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model's career, as ironic as that sounds. It's how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.

Starting my career in London was no accident because the city and the industry here are all about theatre and drama, and I respond well to that.

As a small child me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.

As a small child, me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.

I'm utterly androgynous, and I truly love it. It's been part of my identity for so long. I've never been that pretty girl, and I wouldn't want to be.

Caution is the key to safe cycling. I'm aware that cars are bigger than me, but I feel quite safe. I'm in control, liberated and free, when I'm on my bike.

I can play the flute. Music was my favourite A-level, and I used to love composing my and stylising my voice to sound like 90's singing sensation Tori Amos.

I am rubbish at the gym. I prefer to exercise by moving around - it doesn't matter whether I am dancing on a Friday night or on my bike getting from A to B.

Water - I drink gallons of it! You can use the most luxurious skincare products in the world, but they won't work as well if you do not hydrate from inside.

I do like shopping high street, but I do consider the long-term value of a specific piece and, also, one day giving it up for somebody else to love and enjoy.

I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. My favourite piece is a voodoo mask from just outside Cape Town.

I had one particular handbag disaster when I couldn't get into it, and when I finally did, it flew over the red carpet and was caught by 200 lenses. Not a great moment.

Share This Page