Twiggy

The model, actress, and singer (nowadays called: Dame Lesley Lawson DBE) is considered  to be the first real “supermodel”. She was a British cultural icon of the 1960s. 

Twiggy was known for her thin build and her androgynous look consisting of big eyes, long eyelashes, and short hair.

After modelling she started acting. Her role in The Boy Friend (1971) brought her two Golden Globe Awards. In 1980 she made cameo appearance in Blues Brothers and played opposite Robin Williams in the 1986 comedy Club Paradise. 

In 1983 she made her Broadway debut in the musical, My One and Only, for which she earned a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical.

She later hosted her own series Twiggy's People, in which she interviewed celebrities; she also appeared as a judge on the reality show America's Next Top Model. 

In 2011 she released an album, Romantically Yours involved Brian Adams for a guitar solo. 

She has a rose named after her: “Twiggy’s Rose”.

She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to fashion, to the arts and to charity.

She was married with American actor Michael Witney in 1977, they have a daughter, Carly but the man died of heart attack in 1983.

After that she married Leigh Lawson  British  actor, director and writer in 1988. Lawson adopted Twiggy's daughter, who took his surname. 

Twiggy is sometimes blamed for the start of the fashion industry’s obsession with young skinny girls and the rise of eating disorders but she says:

“I hated what I looked like.”