Hello I'm Krestey Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons, we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1989,

and the presenter was Sue Lolly. My castaway this week is the girl from Niesden who became a founding member of the

swinging 60s. With her fragile frame and wide eyes she was promoted as the model of her age and propelled into the glamorous world of

fashion and photography. Later she found success as a singer and dancer and

starred in Ken Russell's film The Boyfriend. These days the teenage looks that had

the cameras popping 20 years ago have matured into those of a successful actress who

is also a wife and a mother. She is Leslie Hornby, better known as Twiggy, a name Twiggy which you don't much care for

anymore.

Well, I mean it's such a silly name, isn't it?

I think I'm st, I mean, you know, I've been through all the thing of I'm going to change it

and you know you do it you do a show and you say to the producer right can I use my

route and they kind of look at you like you well nobody know who Leslie, well now I'm Leslie Lawson but

so I think I'm Twiggy, maybe Twiggy Lawson, at least that sounds like a human being.

Leslie Lawson actually. It's a great name isn't it? But I think I'll be Twiggy forever. I think you might be. I think I'm stuck with it. Where did it come from? My manager, way back in those early days, Justin de Vernerv, He had a brother and he was my boyfriend

Justin at the time and his brother Tony used to tease me because I was 16 I was

very young and I was really skinny and

Tony used to call me sticks because of my legs and I used to get furious and

sticks turned into Twiggy and Twiggy stuck. I'm lucky sticks didn't

stick didn't know?

Justin DeVille is also quite a name to country. Well that wasn't a real one.

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