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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.