I was flat chested for years - now I love my curves': Model JODIE KIDD reveals her essential style secrets as says she suffered from such severe anxiety at the height of her career it felt like she 'couldn't breathe'
- Rosanna Greenstreet talks to Jodie Kidd, 38, model, TV personality and mother
- She said: 'I felt like I couldn’t breathe, that my heart was going to jump out'
- She reveals that canny recycling is one of her essential style secrets
Starting
today, in the first of an occasional column revealing the surprising
secrets of the super stylish, Rosanna Greenstreet talks to Jodie Kidd,
38, model, TV personality and mother to Indio, five.
Your body loves – and hates?
I
get my long legs from my dad, and being able to get my legs out has
always been a benefit, which is why I love this gold dress.
Starting today, in the first of an
occasional column revealing the surprising secrets of the super stylish,
Rosanna Greenstreet talks to Jodie Kidd, 38, model
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It’s
fantastic to have boobs finally, but I know if I really lose weight,
that’s the first thing that goes. It’s a fine line between feeling
womanly and curvy, having boobs and a bit of a butt, and being skinny
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Dress up or dress down?
Wearing
dresses and beautiful shoes is fun, however I am a country girl at
heart and I never know when I am going to get a phone call to say one of
the dogs has run away so I’ve got to go here or there.
So
I love good-quality clothes that are practical: a lovely pair of Paige
or IDA jeans with a cashmere jumper or big chunky knit.
Wearing dresses and beautiful shoes is
fun, however I am a country girl at heart and I never know when I am
going to get a phone call to say one of the dogs has run away so I’ve
got to go here or there
Gym bunny or lazy bones?
My
body has changed dramatically since I stopped modelling. Having been a
flat-chested catwalk model, I’m now doing extreme sporting challenges,
and my body’s become a lot stronger and more muscular.
This
great guy called Travis trains me if I have a challenge, focusing on
the right parts of my body to enable me to achieve each goal, like climb
Kilimanjaro.
Last year, I did a lot of
charity cycle races: I rode my bicycle around Burma and did one of the
hardest bike races, called L’Etape du Tour, so I ended up getting very
strong legs.
It’s not easy to get your
butt off the sofa and put those hours in at the gym, but I find exercise
such a good thing for the head.
My body has changed dramatically since
I stopped modelling. Having been a flat-chested catwalk model, I’m now
doing extreme sporting challenges, and my body’s become a lot stronger
and more muscular
Nip and tuck?
I
remember walking down catwalks and seeing a woman who looked like a cat
in the front row who used to scare the living daylights out of us!
But surgery has come on in leaps and bounds, and each to his own.
Life
is so incredible and so precious and, if you want to do something that
makes you feel more confident and better in your skin, then why the hell
not?
What scares you?
Twenty
years ago, I suffered from anxiety. Walking down catwalks, doing press
junkets and live TV were absolutely terrifying for me.
I felt like I couldn’t breathe, that my heart was going to jump out of my chest.
People
didn’t understand and said ‘Pull yourself together’ or ‘Snap out of
it’, which are the worst things you can say. I was prescribed
beta-blockers.
But I had gone from a
very active healthy childhood to just doing nothing, so I lost all my
muscles from riding and became a gawky 6 ft 2 in skinny girl walking a
million catwalks.
I found it difficult
to eat because I was so anxious and panicked, and then I was in a spiral
because I was getting more jobs and becoming even more anxious. In the
end, I had to walk away: I gave up modelling and moved to the country
and grew flowers.
I had to remove all the factors that put me in that state, but it stopped my career for a long time.
Now I understand anxiety and what’s going on, but for years, I thought I was going to have a heart attack and die.
If
I get to the point where I am suffering, I change my mindset and go on a
walk, do a run or get on a bicycle and that really helps. I find
healthy body, healthy mind.
Signature scent?
I absolutely adore Serge Lutens Fleurs d’Oranger.
Feast or famine?
I
try to keep an eye on what I put in my body. I’m really into my spices,
and my favourite thing at the moment is sweet potato curry. What I eat
depends on what challenges I’m doing.
If
I am going to do a five or six-hour cycle where I am going to be
burning 3,000 to 4,000 calories then, my God, I am going to be tucking
into a massive bowl of carbonara! I’ve loved cooking ever since I did
MasterChef. I cook from scratch; I enjoy food so much and that’s
transferred to Indi, who is a fantastic eater and has never really eaten
packaged food.
We grow all our own veg, so he helps me plant the seeds at the beginning of the year — we’ve just put in our scarlet runners.
He
loves to pull up a carrot and chew on it as we walk around the garden.
When we get in from school, I ask: ‘What do you want to eat?’
If it’s fish fingers and chips, we’ll dig up potatoes, then I’ll make my own fish fingers.
We have chickens so, if he wants a dippy egg, we’ll go and get one.
I try to keep an eye on what I put in
my body. I’m really into my spices, and my favourite thing at the moment
is sweet potato curry
What’s in your handbag?
A
Botanic Lab health drink, a little notepad, tissues, Caitlyn Jenner Mac
lip gloss. Crème de la Mer lip balm, an Anker charger because my
iPhone’s constantly dying and Indi’s little Thomas The Tank Engine.
Wardrobe treasure?
A beautiful pair of trousers that Karl Lagerfeld made for me, though I haven’t been able to fit into them for quite a while.
They are buckskin and absolutely beautiful and they are cut for, well, what was my body!
They
remind me of a time when I was working exclusively for Karl modelling
for the Chloe, Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel campaigns. We had an awful lot
of fun.
Guilty pleasures?
Wine.
Red wine — actually, white wine just as much! I love wine, I really do.
And when you are trying to tone up, it’s lethal! The amount of sugar in
it! Oh God! I put my son to bed, cook dinner and have a big glass of
wine. That’s my chill out at the end of the day.
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