Susannah Constantine Says Split From Trinny Caused Her Severe Anxiety | Loose Women

can you believe it's been nearly 20 years since fashion guru susanna constantine and her work wife trini arrived on our screens on a mission to make all of us confident in our clothes and proud of our bodies every part of our bodies one of those things that is meant to make massage your boobs and make them bigger it's going to be yeah it's going to suck and massage okay hold on [Laughter] i feel so many women if they're in the right bra do not need exactly this and she's here right now suzanna constantine hello hi how are you really really good how are you how's lockdown been for you and have you managed to catch up with trini during lockdown i have indeed and seeing that my god 20 years that makes me feel so old i can't believe it's nearly 20 years but you're right but yes we've we've been in touch often so obviously it must have been really really hard for me for you when you guys just were no longer on the telly because you must have been joined at the hip you you really struggled after that didn't you yes it was because we've been trini in susanna for so many years and you know i'd walk through an airport and get recognized but people wouldn't say oh look there's susannah they go oh look there's trini and susanna and um suddenly it was like we weren't we weren't you know i did have didn't have my other half and so i had to re-identify myself as a single person as just susanna and i found that very difficult it was almost like i went into mourning oh gosh well do you like it a bit to a midlife crisis i guess so i think it kind of came that the two things came at the same time so it was a bit of a double whammy and i lost my identity totally because i i it was almost like i lived as someone else for 20 15 years whatever it was and came out the other side and it was like who the hell am i um so it was like it was like a divorce where we are still best friends at the end of it lovely i think what's what's so sad about that when you when you hear you say that susanna is obviously you were so associated with making women feel brilliant about themselves and it just makes my heart hurt to think that when that ended for you you ended up feeling like so many of the women that you were trying to help it's absolutely true andrea and i am you know when i when when that finished i did turn into the woman who trini and i always helped had helped and i lost all my confidence i put on weight i had my self-worth was on the floor and um but then i did this thing for sport relief where i had to get very fit very quickly and that turned my life around did it yeah and and and you went and you and you'd always dreamed of going back to your writing which you did yes and how do you think that saved you my savior i mean that has been my savior it's my escape it's my freedom and um it's it's where i feel so happy when i'm at my computer and i'm writing and like you say it's what i've always enjoyed doing and i feel so blessed now to have found a second career almost i want to ask you susanna as a singer-songwriter i use lots of different genres for my inspiration i understand that you like grime and garage when you're writing can you explain please no i do i love kind of chase and status hybrid minds which is a little bit kind of more mellow i think it's kind of like having a writing trainer kicking my ass when i'm when i'm working because you've got that beat and i'm almost like typing to the beat and i don't you know some of the lyrics are so incredible so you have someone like dave and in particular his song black which is the lyrics to that are some of the most beautiful i've ever heard and um so they it kind of allows me to waft off but yeah it's that impetus it's that that beat that keeps me going can you tell us a little bit about your um about your latest novel len susanna what can we expect well denise it is it's called summer in mayfair and um it's the uh prequel sorry sequel to the first novel i wrote which was called after the snow and after the snow was very much semi-autobiographical because i i grew up in the countryside my mother was severely manic depressive and i had to go when she was sectioned i would have to go and stay in this castle where i was bullied by the duchess there through silence and so the first one was seeing mental illness in the aristocracy in the 60s through the eyes of an eleven-year-old girl and in the second book esme she's called goes to london leaving her dysfunctional family behind to go and find herself and the kind of backdrop for it is the emerging gay scene in 1979 london and the art world at that time and she's left this painting by this man who was actually her mother's lover and she's left this painting which she goes to get restored and it's how she finds her identity through this painting now obviously you drew really heavily on your own life for the first book and it sounds like you've sort of dipped into aspects of your personal life for this book because you've also included some real-life people in there elton john features and also princess margaret as well yes and that they both um elton and princess margaret have had uh oh look there we go a big impact on my life and in a very positive way and princess margaret features in the first book and she was she when my mum was sick she was a kind of she was someone i could turn to and she was a strong and powerful influence who i would rely on quite a lot and then elton is in the in the second book not gratuitously because in 1979 he was um although i didn't know him at that time he was very much collecting the period of our period of art that is sold in the gallery that esme is working in so he would have been a client i think what's what's so wonderful is you've sort of woven in sort of fact and fiction so beautifully brilliant there's something we need to ask you but before you go because obviously you know you're you're known as you know trinity susanna making people look so beautiful in their clothes but you are not adverse to a wardrobe malfunction i know it's led to a to a podcast in itself which is which is wonderful but tell us about your uh how should i call it your wardrobe malfunction in front of prince philip well my wardrobe malfunction was spectacular and i was sitting between him and i think it was prince edward at one of their 21st balls at windsor castle i was wearing this beautiful valentino dress that my dad had bought me felt a million dollars and i was like eating my soup and suddenly i felt this kind of draft around my chest area and i looked down and my boot the straps are broken and my both my boobs had come out and they literally kind of almost fell into the suit and then without me saying anything this butler came over with a silver silver and two safety pins and he just picked up my straps and i scooped my boobs back into my dress and he pinned me at the back and no one said a thing so that that came from there came my wardrobe malfunction which you know yeah i love that i know that's proper posh isn't it you know you have boobs in the soup and nobody even has an eyelid very brilliant brilliant brilliant so true nothing shocks nothing shocked um the book is uh is out now it's called summer in mayfair and it's been an absolute delight as ever talking to you susanna have a lovely lovely rest of the day lovely to talk to you all right you take care girls all right you

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Keywords: loose women, interview, Chat Shows - Topic, Chat Show - Topic, Talk Show - Topic, Talk Shows - Topic, ITV, Susannah Constantine, Trinny Woodall, Trinny and Susannah, Andrea McLean, Nadia Sawalha, Denise Welch, Brenda Edwards, Loose Women, What Not To Wear

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Length: 8min 28sec (508 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 14 2020