Susannah Constantine prioritises her physical health over looking younger.
Susannah Constantine has opened up on her priorities in life now she is in her 60s
The 61-year-old TV star - who shot to fame presenting 'What Not to Wear' from 2001 to 2005 with her friend Trinny Woodall - does all she can to ensure that on the inside she has a "Ferrari engine" keeping her going, even if she looks like a "rusty, old Land Rover" on the outside.
In an interview with the new issue of Closer, she said: "I don't want to look old, but it's now more about how healthy and young I am on the inside. It's more about health span not lifespan. If I look like an old, rusty Land Rover - which I do on most days - I've still got a Ferrari engine inside me that's working extremely well because I choose to look after myself."
Susannah - who shares children Joe, 25, Esme, 22, and Cece, 19, with her Danish husband Sten Bertelsen - has rarely been seen on television with Trinny, 60, since their 2007 ITV docuseries 'Trinny and Susannah Undress The Nation' caused a commotion due to the amount of nudity it featured pre-watershed.
The controversy resulted in the programme getting axed, but Susannah insists that she and Trinny, 60, are still as close as ever and are always supporting one another.
She shared: "We're both still very, very close friends. We're both doing such different things now, she's working with her passion which has always been skincare, and she's doing phenomenally well. I'm so blown away and proud of her - she's a powerhouse.
"We have so much to be grateful for with our careers and where it's led us both."
Susannah also believes that women now could learn something from the message of empowerment that she and Trinny were trying to spread in the 2000s, that clothes can be a powerful force in making you feel good about yourself.
The former 'Strictly Come Dancing' contestant worries about the surge in cosmetic surgery procedures and believes society is losing its way when it comes to beauty standards and expectations.
She said: "If I wake up and my confidence is low, I'll always dress up a bit so that I look in the mirror and I go, 'OK, you'll do!' It's about understanding your own limitations and making the best of them.
"You've got to accept that there are things you can't change, but changing the way you dress and wearing clothes that suit your body shape is something everybody can do. It's almost like people have lost sight of clothes, it's now about how many fillers you have, how big your lips can go, how much smoother can your face be at the age of 19 when it's not even necessary. It's all about physicality now and we were never about that, we were about trying to make the best of what you have."
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