EXCLUSIVE: Trinny Woodall, 59, admits she started Botox at 35 because her forehead 'looked like a second MOUTH' - but says her 19-year-old daughter Lyla isn't even considering the procedure because she has 'an amazing sense of self'

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Trinny Woodall has revealed she decided to have Botox for the first time at the age of 35 because she was so insecure about her forehead, which she claimed looked 'like a second mouth'.

The British fashion and beauty expert, 59, is refreshingly open when it comes to discussing procedures or 'tweakments', and confirmed she has Botox 'twice a year'.

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, Trinny recalled how she thought the cosmetic injection was 'really f**king clever' when she was first introduced to it more than 20 years ago, right before her TV career kicked off.

'I didn't do Botox until I was 35 and at the time it was really young because it was hardly there,' she explained. 'Nobody knew what Botox was, and I was told it would stop my forehead from moving when I did television.'

Trinny burst onto screens in 2001 alongside Susannah Constantine, with the pair teaming up to help the fashion-challenged on the UK version of What Not To Wear.

Trinny Woodall has revealed she decided to first have Botox at the age of 35 because she was conscious of her forehead

The beauty and fashion expert confirmed she has Botox injections twice a year

Trinny said her daughter Lyla, pictured here in June 2023, isn't 'anywhere close to thinking' about having Botox

'My forehead was literally like a second mouth and it embarrassed me,' Trinny admitted, before adding: 'And this person said, "[Botox] will just freeze your forehead", and I was like, "How f**king clever"... and it did!

'So, as a result I didn't progress with so many lines on my forehead because I didn't give them a chance to start!'

But despite her own penchant for Botox, Trinny is confident that her daughter Lyla - who turns 20 next week - is not planning on picking up her mother's bi-annual habit. 

'I mean whenever I would have my appointment for Botox, she'd say, "Are you going to see that funny man whose going to put something in your face?" That's how she looks at it so I don't think she's anywhere close to thinking [about it],' she said.

The mother-of-one continued: 'She is so fundamentally different from me at her age, that I look upon her in awe. She has a different sense of self than I had... she has an amazing sense of self.'

Trinny also admitted that she 'hated' being the age that her daughter is now and was 'so relieved' when she entered her thirties. 

'I hated my twenties so much! I was so relieved when my twenties were over,' she explained. 'It's that thing when you don't yet know who you are to such an extent that you wake up worrying.'

In 2017, the fashion expert launched her very own beauty and skincare brand, Trinny London, for women over the age of 35 who she claims were not being 'catered for in the market'.  

The TV star said she is 'in awe' of her 19-year-old daughter because she has an 'amazing sense of self'

Trinny burst on to television screens in 2001 hosting What Not To Wear alongside Susannah Constantine

Trinny, pictured here with Susannah in 2001, said being in her fifties has been 'the most freeing decade' of her life

Trinny said: 'I want to accelerate you getting to a stage where you know who you are and love yourself. If I had to think, "what's my mission?" it's to bring that to you sooner.

'It is a rite of passage but sometimes you can find women at 60 and you think, "you're not there yet", so it's also a generational thing of feeling you don't have the right to show that you want to care about yourself, or worry about yourself. And it's more of a privilege now to be able to do that.'

Writing for the Daily Mail in September, Trinny explained why her fifties have been 'the most freeing decade' of her life and how she realized that 'feeling good about yourself' is the best way to let go of the fear.

'Just before I turned 50, a woman who was a little older than me said I was about to go into the most freeing decade of my life. She was right,' Trinny wrote.

'I did feel more free. I felt - and still feel - more comfortable in who I am. As you go down the path of life, you learn to stop worrying what anyone thinks.'

Trinny will bid farewell to her fifties when she turns 60 in February, and plans to go on a 'walking holiday' with some close friends to ring in the milestone birthday.

'I've always loved something where you have a weekend of people getting to know each other better because it's quality rather than quantity, because people I really love and care about probably are on two hands, so would I want to do something where there's a weekend and we do an adventure together,' she said.

'So, my dream would be to go to Bhutan, but that just might be quite tricky, with like eight friends but what I'd love to do is choose a certain number of people - it wouldn't be so many - but people I love, so we can walk because when you walk, you have really good conversations.

'I've always wanted to go to Bhutan and it's very difficult to get to and it's very challenging to do it, so I have no idea if it will happen but probably if you asked me my dream way to celebrate, it would be to go with my closest friends on a trip where we all have an adventure together to somewhere we've never been to before.'