Nigella Lawson: 'I'm allergic to the sun'
Nigella Lawson says she is “allergic to the sun” and attributes her youthful looks to staying in the shade and a diet of high-fat food.
Nigella Lawson is “allergic to the sun”.
The 66-year-old chef – who will join The Great British Bake Off as a judge when it returns later this year – has insisted the secret to her glowing skin has nothing to do with Botox of fillers and instead can be attributed to a diet of high-fat food and staying out of the sun.
Speaking to The Mirror, she explained: “I'm a great believer in butter. I just eat what I want. I enjoy life but also, I know myself. I'm not punishing myself trying to look like a model. So that's good - I just waddle and enjoy myself.
"I think [good] skin is genetic, really. I'm also allergic to the sun so I don't go into the sun and that makes a difference. It's been [that way] my whole life but it's got worse. I just can't go in it. It's a bore, actually.”
Nigella also called cosmetic treatments a “tyranny” and insisted she will never have any work done on her face.
She said: “Having a bit of fat on the face helps. I don't do filler or anything like that. Cosmetic work is a tyranny. I just think there's no point."
Nigella also revealed she sees ageing as a privilege after losing her mother, sister and first husband to cancer.
Nigella’s mother Vanessa Salmon, died of liver cancer when Nigella was 25 and eight years later, the star lost her younger sister, Thomasina, to breast cancer at the age of 32.
In 2001, Nigella's first husband, broadcaster John Diamond – the father of her children, Cosima, 32, and Bruno, 29 - died from throat cancer, at the age of 47.
She explained: “It would be immoral if I complained about ageing – so I don't. We shouldn’t complain about being old. Life is precious. I'm not saying we can't all moan about things – I think one has to be allowed to do that.
“A sense of proportion is not always easy to hold onto. Loss is something you have to bear in you.”
