quotables

Alexandra Shulman ‘Just So Pleased [She’s] Not a Young Woman Now’

Alexandra Shulman attends at the Burberry Spring Summer 2012 Womenswear Show at Kensington Gardens on September 19, 2011 in London, England.
Alexandra Shulman attends at the Burberry Spring Summer 2012 Womenswear Show at Kensington Gardens on September 19, 2011 in London, England. Photo: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images

“I feel very grateful that, at the time I started having sex with men, I didn’t even have a bikini wax and men were lovely,” the British Vogue editor told the Observer. “Now I just think: how terrifying to be a 20-year-old and feel that you’ve got to be perfect and hairless and immaculate and that it’s really awful. I would never have got undressed.”

Alexandra Shulman Pleased She’s Not Young Now