Twiggi Biography Personal Life

Born on September 19 in the suburbs of London. English supermodel, actress and singer. Leslie Hornby, who became known as Twiggi, was born on September 19 in the suburbs of London in a family of medium wealth. Like many models, at school, Leslie considered herself an ugly duckling and, to put it mildly, was not enthusiastic about her own appearance. She was especially depressed by the lack of chest and skinny legs classmates even came up with her corresponding nickname - "stick".

The girl believed in herself only after she changed her image, and a short haircut for a boy and thick fluffy eyelashes became her hallmark. By the way, it took 7 hours to make a charming blonde with the eyes of a deer Bambi eyes. At 16, she met the fashionable London hairdresser Leonardo and became the face of his beauty salon. The first photo shoot Leslie with a short haircut was made by Barry Lategan.

He came up with a memorable pseudonym - Twiggi to the girl. In the year, Twiggi was recognized as the face of the year according to Daily Express. Soon, the girl became the face of Fashion London X and the icon of the fashion subculture. She was shot by the best photographers: Helmut Newton and Cecil Biton. According to some fashion historians, it is Twiggy that can be called the first supermodel.

Millions of girls around the world are losing weight to exhaustion, copied makeup and an unusually short haircut of a large -eyed model. She has become a real business card of the decade. In the year, Twiggi unexpectedly states that he is finishing his career for the model. In the year, Twiggi was awarded two Golden Globe awards for her role in the film adaptation of the Boyfrand musical, then she went on stage as Alisa Dutlitle in Pygmalion.

Twiggi was the first real, living prototype Barbie. Barbie-Tiggi was produced by Mattel in years. In the year, the doll was dressed in a striped dress and yellow boots, in her “dowry” was replenished not only with new things, but also with a cosmetic bag, in which there was everything that was needed for makeup, from the fluff for powder to eyeliner. Twiggi constantly performed on television: for example, in the year she was invited as a guest to the popular puppet television program “Mappet show”.

She also acted as a judge in the popular television show "Top model in American" from 5th to the 9th season. Millions of girls around the world, wanting to resemble Trostinka, are so translated by the nickname of Leslie Hornby, refused to eat and fell into hungry fainting, while Twiggi, on her own admission, always ate what she wanted, did not do anything with any cotton balls soaked in orange juice, which are often included in the orange.

The diet of current models, there was no question. Leslie worked as a model until she liked it, and did not deny herself anything. Star X still does not believe in the diet. Twiggi, who was not too high - 1.66 m - never took part in the defile, but she was happy to shoot the best photographers - Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Bert Stern Time joked over a girl whose parameters were 41 kg: “Her face should be her capital, because they certainly are not.

Even for a fashion model, which are usually flat like boards, twiggi is too skinny. ” Leslie very quickly turned into a brand girl. It seems that she was everywhere - not only on the covers of gloss, but also on lunch boxes, thermos. Under her name, stains, paper dolls, tights, dresses and knitting cars were also produced! Yardley of London released not only Twiggy's overhead eyelashes, but also the eyeliner of two colors, it was needed to “open” the gaze, make it open, and the dark one could lengthen the lower eyelashes, drawing them.

Today on the network you can buy her perfume, ballet shoes or skinny. In E, she agitated against the use of natural fur in the fashion industry. In the year, Twiggi was in the center of the scandal with Photoshop. Retushera that processes Leslie’s picture for advertising the eye cream cream, almost all wrinkles were somewhat carried away and “wiped” from the model’s face.

After the secret became clear, the indignant British wrote more complaints in which they expressed their dissatisfaction with deception. Twiggy growth: centimeters. Twiggi’s personal life: in the year she married actor Li Lawson and took his last name. Twiggi is a fierce opponent of Botox, she never did and will never make injections that she considers harmful to facial expressions and bodies.

She is convinced that Botox turns people into freaks. At the same time, with purely female immediacy, the supermodel has nothing against plastic surgery. Twiggi, although it refers to the processes of aging philosophically, is still not one of those who recommend women who exchanged the fourth or fifth dozen to stock up with white sheets and crawl towards the cemetery. On the contrary, she carefully works to make people farewell to youth, more attractive and inspire optimism in them.

Twiggy advocates a healthy lifestyle - she prefers healthy food and loves to do exercises. Twice a week, Leslie goes to the gym or to the classes of the Chechechtka.At one time, her father strictly made sure that Leslie's younger daughters do not have an older sister.