For those of us gifted by Mother Nature with an average physique, it's reassuring to know that even former supermodels have their hang-ups.
Take Twiggy.
Sixties icon she may have been, but in her teenage mind her ‘funny little sticky' legs were not a patch on those of fellow model Pattie Boyd, the blonde knockout who would go on to capture the hearts of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton.
‘I used to long for Pattie's legs,' Twiggy sighs.
‘To this day, she has the best pair of legs. They're amazing —shapely, but long and skinny. She was gorgeous. Still is.'
The same might be said for Twiggy, who at 73 retains the piercing blue eyes and beautiful bone structure that, nearly half a century ago, saw her plucked from North London schoolgirl obscurity to be labelled ‘The Face of 66'.
What a life she has had since.
She has modelled all over the world, made feature films, starred on Broadway, hosted her own chat show, recorded albums and launched a clothing line and podcast, in the process gathering an address book that's like an A-Z of modern celebrity, featuring everyone from Dustin Hoffman (‘a great friend') to Paul McCartney and Kate Moss.
Sixties icon Twiggy, 73, has had a career spanning modelling, acting, chart calming music for sleep and musicals.
She's most proud of the latter, specifically her 1983 Tony award-nominated stint on Broadway in the musical My One And Only
In 2019 she was made a dame. ‘I'm so proud of being British, so I was thrilled about that,' she says.
It's quite the journey, and one which is being told for the first time in a documentary made by actor-turned-filmmaker Sadie Frost (another friend), who suggested the idea after appearing on Twiggy's podcast, Tea With Twiggy, promoting her film tribute to Mary Quant.
‘I asked her on the podcast whether she was going to do any more in a similar vein and she said: "Oh, I should do you." And I just laughed,' Twiggy recalls.
‘But then when we came off the podcast, she said: "What do you think?" And that was that really.'
In fact, it is the first of two Twiggy life stories this year: due in September is nothing less than a Twiggy musical, Close Up, written and directed by Ben Elton (also a friend).
The film, meanwhile, is currently in the edit suite.
The final footage was taken last week at the Cannes Film Festival, but it's a safe bet that it will be a trip down memory lane, featuring stills and video footage from various eras, interlaced with commentary from showbiz luminaries.
It's also the reason why we are meeting today at the airy Kensington flat Twiggy shares with her second husband, the actor Leigh Lawson, and which itself is something of a mini-museum of Twiggy's star-sprinkled life.
There is a large black-and-white photograph of her modelling with Kate Moss in the bathroom, alongside a sketch signed by Dustin Hoffman, in which he is depicted in his 1989 role as Shylock in The Merchant Of Venice, alongside Lawson as Antonio.
It is all a very long way from the Neasden semi-detached where Lesley Hornby, as she was then, was born the youngest of three daughters in the aftermath of World War II.
Early days: Twiggy's mum Nell battled periods of depression, spending some time in a psychiatric hospital.
She describes her dad as incredibly protective and level-headed
There was a big gap between the three girls and, at 15 years older, her eldest sister Shirley was like a second mum, particularly as their mother Nell battled periods of depression which meant that on occasions she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
Twiggy says: ‘I think today they'd probably diagnose bipolar disorder.
‘In the family we all think that it started after she had me, because she was 40 then, which in those days was late. And she probably had postnatal depression, which wasn't diagnosed. And then there was the war.
‘When my other sister, Vivien, was just a baby, a bomb dropped at the end of our back garden and blew the windows in. It must have been so frightening.
So I think her nerves were shattered. But I was so protected by my dad and my sisters.'
Twiggy adored her dad Norman, a joiner and master carpenter who had migrated down south from his home town of Bolton, Lancashire. ‘I loved my mum but he was special,' she says.
‘He was incredibly protective and level-headed.'
Norman certainly seems to have had commendable foresight. From the moment ‘Twiggy' — the name was a spin-off from her childhood nickname, Twigs — was launched on the world after being spotted by a fashion journalist modelling a new cropped hairstyle for celebrity hairdresser Leonard Lewis, he made sure that she was never left unsupervised.
‘One week I was at school and within three months I was doing the Paris collections for Elle magazine and Vogue,' she says, shaking her head at the memor
r>‘I mean, it was mad. I was 16 — and a very green 16, really. I see 16-year-olds now and they seem so grown up.
‘When this all kicked off and I was getting all these bookings, Dad said: "Well, you can't do that on your own.