For most of us, no matter how slim, middle-aged spread really does set in, and your waist thickens, irrespective of whether you've had children or if you exercise regularly.

My favourite scent... changes every day. I have a cupboard full - so many I can't begin to tell you.

When I see images of a girl who is obviously far too thin, I am just as shocked as anyone else.

I lost count of how many times photographers and designers would tell me to lose a bit of weight, especially as I got a little older and my body started to develop.

There are lots of things I won't eat but would like to, such as croissants or ice cream - if I started, I'd scoff the whole tub.

We don't do funerals in my family.

I have sun damage. I cover it up with make-up.

I lead a very disciplined life.

I don't wear mini-skirts or shorts because I have thread veins on my legs and cellulite, and I won't wear tights.

I have nothing against cosmetic procedures, but I don't want my face lasered. Also, people are naive about how much you can do with make-up and lighting, and I've learned from the best.

I am thrilled to be modelling the debut collection of Always Aliza. Janet Reger was such an iconic brand throughout my modelling career, and it feels great to now be modelling her daughter's range for JD Williams almost forty years on.

I think a mother needs to be with mothers. I don't know what they talk about.

It would be nice to see a fashion range that is geared towards a vibrant, sexual, confident 50-something.

But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother.

I wasn't interested in having children of my own. I know what would have happened - I'd have been left at home to look after the kids, and my career would have been over while my husband travelled the world.

My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.

I haven't eaten meat since I was 17, so I take Vitamin C, a B complex, Omegas-3-6-9, glucosamine, and antioxidants to make sure my body stays healthy.

I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don't eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.

I'm well trained. The only reason I am this slim is that I have to fit into the clothes. The samples are size 8, and I am naturally a size 10 to 12. I have been on a diet for my entire life.

There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.

I don't particularly like children. That sounds awful, but I have nothing to say to them.

My livelihood depends on my surface beauty, but when I wash my face, I see a real person there.

When you live with a photographer, you never have a day off - it was a nightmare.

I like naughty boys. I was married to David Bailey, who was one of the naughtiest. I like real men, and I like masculinity.

I genuinely have to work - I don't have enough money not to. But the last thing I would want is to be looked after.

A lot of women lose definition around their waist as they get older, which can mean their bottom half can look shapeless.

I love fashion, but I don't really do shopping.

I always wear the same thing: a tight white shirt - I have about 50 - and tight black trousers.

I've been lucky: my Japanese genes - from my mother's side - and a lifelong moisturising routine have helped keep me looking good.

The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.

When I do wear heels, I prefer to only wear them to dinner, where I'll be sitting down most of the time.

For me, my 50s was the decade when my tolerance for heels faded. I'm in good shape and, at 8 st. 3 lb., I'm still the same weight I was in my 30s, but as you get older, the weight of your body shifts somehow.

I've slipped enough times over the years to know the peril of a too-smooth sole, so every time I buy a new pair, I take a pair of scissors or a piece of sandpaper to the bottoms to roughen them up. In my catwalk days, I even used to spit on the soles of shoes before I ventured down the runway.

My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of the day, when you go home and you go to bed, and if you're on your own, you never think of yourself in that way. I'm sure not even people like Angelina Jolie think like that.

I don't do a lot of looking back; I tend to look ahead.

I lost all my investments after everything crashed in 2001. Prior to that, I'd been living off the interest on my investments, which was very healthy because it allowed frequent travel, and I had a lovely apartment.

As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.

We are constantly driven to believe that women should look a set age or be a certain body size, which is fuelling an obsession with ever more dramatic and invasive steps.

If I'm not in work, I don't wear any make-up.

I grew up in neighbouring Hawaii, where Tahiti is regarded as a brother.

If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.

There are lots of things I would love to wear but wouldn't because I know they look stupid on me.

My fashion icons are Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner. Their classic looks and clean lines should be the cornerstones of your wardrobe - white cotton shirts, black Capri pants, pencil skirts and ballerina skirts.

Although I eat healthily, I do enjoy a greasy fry-up, but usually only once a year. I've also got a big Kit-Kat addiction and buy them in bulk.

I love to lounge, and I particularly love to eat outdoors. It's a throwback to my childhood in Hawaii. I have memories of coming out of the sea and eating corn chips with a strawberry vanilla slush.

For modern fashion designers, bones are beautiful. I don't know why, but so many people are obsessed with the skeletal look.

The average British woman is a size 12 to 14, but in modelling, a size 12 is considered huge, which is ridiculous.

I'm spoilt. I like my own space. I don't even own a microwave, and men don't like that. They want to be looked after.