Words matter. These are the best Jasmine Guinness Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.
In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it’s about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it’s going to be about me, and I shan’t care what anyone else thinks. I can’t wait!
I hate my hair! When clean, it is fuzzy, and when not clean, it is lank.
I don’t believe in diets, as I always put whatever I lost right back on again. I think we should all just eat healthily and get as much exercise as we can.
I try not to wear too much makeup, as I think there comes a point where too much makes you look older.
I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they’ve fallen off a horse and cart?
I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.
People who read on holiday always have a better time because it’s total escapism, both physically and mentally.
I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country and wildlife noises.
I’ve known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don’t know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.
I want to do something to help people.
I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It’s a dream job.
Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.
While farmers’ markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.
I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes.
Arnica is great. I got kicked in the stomach by a horse once, and some adult slapped arnica all over it, and I had no bruise at all to show for my pain.
My husband is experimental, loves to cook, and is really good at it. If I do the cooking, I lose my appetite. Why is that?
People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I was schlepping around London with no money, I found it rather irksome that people thought I had a private income when I didn’t.
It’s all very well setting up your own brand of face cream or exercise wear – but Christ, it’s so shallow.
We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.
I always dreamt that I would marry in the Piazza Del Campo in Siena and go on my honeymoon down the Amazon, up the Nile, on a gallop through the pyramids, to Nepal and Kerala, on a safari and finally to Lake Titicaca in Peru.
Books have always been an important part of my life.
I love ‘Saturday Live’ with Fi Glover. I find that very relaxing.
People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.
Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: ‘I’m never having any more kids!’
As a model, I travel non-stop.
I’ve worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don’t expect anything.
The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.
Being mum is a number one job. That takes priority.
I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad’s and aunts’ toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.
Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from ‘bog-trotters.’
I knew nothing about my mum’s family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brought up by two aunts, and she only ever met one uncle.
It’s appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.
My face hasn’t matured as I’ve grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.
I’d never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles.
Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn’t walk in.
Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics.
We’ve got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we’ve got to see rents coming down.
I’m a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word ‘Luddite,’ as I thought it described me perfectly.
I always dress scruffily, but at weekends I live in muddy Wellies.
Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?
I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.
It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.
It’s really hard work being a model.