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‘One agency called me Thunder Thighs’: Twiggy and Sadie Frost on sexism, self-esteem and the swinging 60s

The actor-models have made a documentary about Twiggy’s life that is as lively and sunny as her personality – but it doesn’t shy away from exploring the misogyny they both endured

Frost, who modelled as a teenager before segueing into films such as Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula and the joyriding romp Shopping (with her future and now ex-husband Jude Law), adds “raising kids” to the list of shared experiences. She became an internationally famous model in the second half of the 1960s, moved into acting with a performance in Ken Russell’s zesty 1971 musical The Boy Friend that won her two Golden Globes, then branched out as a singer and Tony-nominated Broadway star. We are having breakfast on the ninth floor of a members’ club – rooibos and a pastry for Twiggy, a vegan full English for Frost – with a panoramic view of west London spread out before us: stumpy tower blocks, grids of brick-red streets, the gleaming Wembley arch in the distance.

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