Linda Lusardi revealed all her diet secrets on Lorraine this morning - after she donned her famous sparkly bikini 30 years on.
She also gave Christine Lampard her frank views on the modern trend for young girls to have lip fillers and Botox.
Speaking about her recent bikini shot, she said: “I was quite shocked actually that anyone was interested.
"I’m a bit of a hoarder. They sent me a few shots and they said can you recreate any of these, I thought, ‘I wonder if I’ve still got that?’ I went up into the loft and opened a bag… it looked like nothing, a hanky. I said, ‘I will never get in that again!’
"The ties at the side, there’s less bow then there used to be! I couldn’t believe I got in it. I thought, 'why not? I don’t mind doing a picture'. I feel quite confident.
"There’s one good thing that comes with age, (which is) that you don’t care as much. Women always put themselves down and worry what other people think all the time... But as you get older, I don’t care.
"I’m going to do what I want for the rest of my life, I’m not going to be here for much longer."
She also gave her best diet secret, claiming not eating for two hours before bed or eating breakfast later has helped her.
Linda said: “The tricks I always do is I use a smaller dinner plate; drink lots and lots of water and try not to eat for 12 hours a day. I know that sounds ‘What?’ But you go to bed, you sleep for eight hours, just do two hours either end.
"Don’t have your breakfast until 11 in the morning, if you go to bed at 10pm then you’ve done your 12 hours. So give your body a chance to be completely clear of food for half the day.
“When you want a biscuit, go for a banana instead. You can’t eat 1,000 calories of bananas but you can easily eat 1,000 calories of biscuits in five minutes.”
Talking about the trend for plastic surgery and fillers today, Linda said to Christine: “I think it’s up to the individual and I never say never. But I do worry, girls under 20, 18 or 19, are having lip fillers. What’s going to happen to them when they are my age or your age?
"When it’s not fashionable to have those pumped up lips any more? Because you are stretching that skin. They are going to end up with tram lines and baggy skin on their face.
"And at 18-25 you are at your prime, you don’t need any intervention from plastic surgery, from botox or fillers… you are naturally beautiful at that age anyway.”
