Twiggy has revealed the secret to keeping her figure trim - eating just one pudding a month.

The "world's first supermodel" weighed just six and a half stone in her heyday and while her stick-thin look was blamed for spreading anorexia, she has always insisted she "ate like a horse" then.

The 59-year-old, born Lesley Hornby, now says she's been forced to change her habits and stick to a strict regime.

She's quoted in a magazine as saying: "I only allow myself one pudding a month."

"In my early 40s I developed a bit of a middle-age spread, so now I follow a healthy-eating regime. I don't believe in dieting, it's all just so boring."

Twiggy, who was named the Face of '66 thanks to her short-haired androgynous look, has recently returned to the limelight with a succession of TV shows and adverts for Marks & Spencer.

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