Twiggy: I used to be a thing; I'm a person now.
(talking about her career as a model) Twiggy: I loved it –it was like a dream come true, a fairy story. It was certainly better than going to school, which was the only other thing I’d ever done."
Twiggy: Life is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three square metres of minefield and help give people their lives back. As simple as that.
Twiggy: I really remember very, very little of my disc "Beautiful dreams" - probably just as well! We did this record just after I had been "discovered" - we were inundated with offers from people saying "do this, do that". To be honest it was probably a bit of a mistake because I didn't know what I was doing. It was interesting to see that I did one that early - I didn't really start singing again until we did "The Boy Friend".
Twiggy: I was in the salon for about seven hours and they were cutting and colouring it, it was all extremely exciting for me. He was brilliant, I went from this mouse like brown to the colour which I have kept now.
(in her 50 year birthday) Twiggy: God! I'm middle aged!
Twiggy: I need 10 hours of sleep per night. I don't think I could perform night after night if I didn't sleep that much. I come home, have a bite too eat because I'm usually absolutely ravenous, digest my meal, turn off all the phones, and go to bed.
(in responded to a journalist who told her she earned more than the prime minister) Twiggy : Do I?
Twiggy: What happened to me in the Sixties was so major and so worldwide and so huge, there's no way I can repeat it. But in a way, I had nothing to do with it, it just took me over. It was bizarre, it was weird, and I had no control over it. I don't think anyone could have planned what happened to me.
Twiggy: I love exercise but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates and taking dance lessons.
Twiggy: It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.
Her first marriage, to the American actor, Michael Witney, ended with his sudden death from a heart attack.
Twiggy is a friend of Fran Dresher's and it was her interaction with Twiggy's children that was used as the basis for The Nanny
Twiggy was a naturally slim girl, but the media now portrays her as the pioneer of the waif-like models and their cult of innocent victims.
It was the photographer, Barry Lategan, who called the young girl "Twiggy" for the first time.
In rottentomatoes.com, Twiggy was qualified as 58% rotten.
Her participation in Tv shows include "Twiggs" (1974), "Twiggy" (1975), "The Muppet Show" (1976), "Victorian Scandals" (1976), "The Donna Summer Special" (1980), "A Gift of Music" (1981), "Princesses" (1991), "Tales from the Crypt" (1992), "The Nanny" (1994), "Heartbeat" (1994), "Absolutely Fabulous" (2000-2001), "This Morning" (presenter in 2001) and "America's Next Top Model" (2005-).
Measurements: 31AA-22-32 (at age 17), 32-23-32 (during peak of her 60s modeling career), 32B-24-32 (in 1976 at age 27), 36B-20-33 (measured in 1986).
Throughout Twiggy's recording career she has collaborated with some of the most prestigious producers in the music industry, including Roger Cook, Tony Eyers, David Essex, Donna Summer, Juergen Koppers and Charlie Skarbek.
In 2004, Twiggy moved to USA due to the filming of "America's Next Top Model".
Marilyn Manson's sideman is called Twiggy Ramirez in her honor.
Twiggy is part of the "Animal Samaritans" charity foundation, which provides homes for unwanted pets.
Her father is called William Norman and is a master carpenter, and her mother is Helen Hornby, who works as a counter girl.
She originated the “Waif” look.
Her Astrological sign is Virgo.
She was the first teen model ever.
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