Twiggy was 'too scared' to eat sushi when she first went to Japan
Twiggy was “too scared” to eat sushi when she went to Japan in the 60s. The 72-year-old model - born Lesley Hornby - thought it was “insanity” to eat the local delicacy of raw fish and rice when she went to the Asian country, aged 17, as she had only ever eaten her “mum’s cooking”. Talking on her podcast ‘Tea With Twiggy” on Monday (10.04.22), the fashion icon said: “When I was 17, way, way back in the mid-60s, I was asked to go to Japan. “I was from north west London and I’d only had my mum’s cooking really. So you can imagine this girl from Neasden sitting in a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo.”...