Trinny Woodall celebrated her 62nd birthday with pals including former What Not To Wear co-host Susannah Constantine on Sunday.
The TV personality, who presented the iconic fashion show with her pal from 2001-2007, was treated to gifts as well as a homemade cake courtesy of daughter Lyla Elichaoff, 22.
Trinny’s low-key celebrations took place at her stylish London home which kicked off with breakfast following student Lyla’s return from studying in Madrid.
The birthday girl, who shares her daughter with late ex-husband Johnny Elichaoff, who died in 2014, was then joined by a huge group of female pals including Susannah and TV’s Tania Bryer.
Trinny, looking stylish in leopard print, beamed cosied up to her nearest and dearest as she enjoyed a lavish lunch before being surprised with a gifted vacuum cleaner.
She captioned the post: ‘Such a joyful birthday today surrounded by my favourite girlfriends and family. Lyla came over from Spain.
Trinny Woodall (L) celebrated her 62nd birthday with former What Not To Wear co-host Susannah Constantine (R) on Sunday (Pictured with Trinny’s daughter Lyla Elichaoff, centre)
Trinny (R) presented the iconic fashion show with her pal Susannah (L) from 2001-2007 (pictured 2004)
‘She made me the most glorious cakes for breakfast and gorgeous thoughtful presents. Girlfriends came over for lunch and Zak and Alfie made it. Such a cozy day’
Fans and famous friends were quick to share their best wishes, with the son of Trinny’s long time friend Elizabeth Hurley, Damien, sharing a sweet tribute.
Alongside a throwback snap he wrote: ‘Happiest birthday to my beautiful aunt I love you’.
Meanwhile fans gushed: ‘Happy Birthday- looks like a lot of fun’: ‘Happy birthday beautiful Trinny xx’: ‘Happy Trinny day!’: ‘Happy Birthday Beautiful Trinny – love these gorgeous pics of you and your loved ones. Just So special. Thank you for being You’.
Style gurus Trinny and Susannah teamed up in the early 90s to write a fashion column for The Telegraph before carving out a long-lasting reputation as a TV duo.
It spawned their style makeover show, What Not to Wear, which ran from 2001 to 2007 and made them into household names.
The two women would snipe at each other’s supposed physical shortcomings -Susannah’s ‘chicken arms’ or Trinny’s ‘flat chest’, but also at the guests who came to them for a new wardrobe.
Indeed, the duo was even credited with the rise of ‘Rude TV’ by academics, who said Trinny and Susannah’s plain speaking contributed to the direct and aggressive behaviour seen on our screens – that led to shows such as The Apprentice, Come Dine With Me and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.
The TV personality was treated to treated to gifts as well as a homemade cake courtesy of daughter Lyla Elichaoff, 22 (pictured together)
Trinny’s low-key celebrations took place at her stylish London home which kicked off with breakfast following student Lyla’s return from studying in Madrid (Lyla and Susannah pictured)
The birthday girl, who shares her daughter with ex-husband Johnny Elichaoff, was then joined by a huge group of female pals
Trinny looked effortlessly stylish in a leopard print maxi dress and statement necklace
Guests included Susannah and TV’s Tania Bryer (pictured right)
Trinny beamed cosied up to her nearest and dearest as she enjoyed a lavish lunch before being surprised with a gifted vacuum cleaner
Lyla surprised her mum with a lavishly decorated cake
She captioned the post: ‘Such a joyful birthday today surrounded by my favourite girlfriends and family. Lyla came over from Spain’.
Fans and famous friends were quick to share their best wishes, with the son of Trinny’s longtime friend Elizabeth Hurley, Damien, sharing a sweet tribute (pictured together)
Alongside a throwback snap he wrote: ‘Happiest birthday to my beautiful aunt I love you’
Meanwhile fans gushed: ‘Happy Birthday- looks like a lot of fun’: ‘Happy birthday beautiful Trinny xx’: ‘Happy Trinny day!’
Trinny previously revealed after welcoming daughter Lyla that she tried again to have another child with a further five rounds of IVF, but that she never got pregnant.
Trinny and Johnny had married each other in 1999 after meeting in rehab, before divorcing in 2009 after which they remained on good terms.
Johnny, who battled an addiction to painkillers for 20 years, had ‘lost everything’ in a series of failed oil investments before his death.
Back in October 2023 Trinny told how she believes going through 16 rounds of IVF triggered her early menopause.
She told The Shift podcast she was offered antidepressants after seeing ‘lots and lots’ of medics after feeling like her ‘mojo had gone’.
However, she claims she was later told by Dr Erika Schwartz, author of The Hormone Solution, that she had actually undergone an early menopause caused by IVF, with each round having supposedly shaven a year off her cycle.
But leading experts insist there is ‘no evidence’ fertility treatment can trigger early menopause.
Style gurus Trinny and Susannah teamed up in the early 90s to write a fashion column for The Telegraph before carving out a long-lasting reputation as a TV duo
Roughly one in 20 women will experience an early menopause, when periods stop before the age of 45. For the majority, the cause is unknown.
Trinny, founder of makeup and skincare brand Trinny London, told the podcast: ‘I read this book called The Hormone Solution which she [Dr Schwartz] wrote.
‘And I went to see her in New York and she just laid it out for me.
‘She said “You did 16 rounds of IVF, that’s about 16 years off your cycle because each time you do a round of IVF you produce 10-12 eggs and that’s what you’re producing in a year.”
‘Never been told that. I wouldn’t have given a s*** because I had Lyla.
‘But it was interesting that my mum went in at 57 and there I was at 43 and so I’ve been very focused on it.’
Trinny said she only had a ‘few symptoms’ of early menopause but that she didn’t recognise them straight away.
However, experts have long dismissed the idea that IVF or other fertility treatments can trigger an early menopause.
