JASMINE GUINNESS

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.

It's all very well setting up your own brand of face cream or exercise wear - but Christ, it's so shallow.

While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

I try not to wear too much makeup, as I think there comes a point where too much makes you look older.

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.

I want to do something to help people.

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 was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

When I had my kids, I took a lot of homeopathic things, and I had them both with no painkillers.

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?

Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?

We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.

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.

The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.

Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'

I love 'Saturday Live' with Fi Glover. I find that very relaxing.

It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

As a model, I travel non-stop.

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.

As a teenager, I was teased at school about my height and long legs, but now they are my best assets. Kids can be mean. When I was at school, I considered myself ugly, but that was when I was silly enough to believe that what other people thought mattered. Now I think I am pretty. I'm not beautiful. There is a difference.

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'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.

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.

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!'

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!