Jasmine Guinness
Jasmine Guinness
Jasmine Leonora Guinnesshas been a designer and a fashion model since 1994. She is also an heiress to the Guinness brewing fortune...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth28 September 1976
CountryIreland
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Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?
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People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.
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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.
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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.
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People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.
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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!
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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.
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I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.
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Books have always been an important part of my life.
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I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.
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We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.
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I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.
I hate my hair! When clean, it is fuzzy, and when not clean, it is lank.
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The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.