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.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience.

I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles.

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.

My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.

I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro.

Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.

Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

Joy acts like a trampoline, everything that touches it bouncing right back off it.

I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and hear birds tweeting, not the low drone of traffic.

Television executives only commission something that somebody else has already commissioned that's doing well on another station - they're afraid of expecting an audience to concentrate for longer than three minutes on any particular item.

When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

If I was going to write something, I'd need to stop for three months and just see if I had any thoughts in there.

Like cars, every relationship requires a bit of an occasional service, and fine-tuning should be compulsory.

It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC.

When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child.

There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.

In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to change the course of the future for themselves and their families.

Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had some fairly decent thoughts.