Twiggy Blasts Photographer Who Once Told Her To 'Come Back When She Was A Woman'

Dame Lesley Lawson, known to everyone as Twiggy, is the cover star for the January issue of Platinum magazine.

Daily Mail got access to the cover story where Twiggy, 70, opened up about a “horrible photographer” whom she crossed paths with when she was a young model. The photographer, who was not named, told her to “come back when she was a woman.”

She also said that there was another time a photographer made her cry when she cut her hair short.

In light of the #MeToo movement, Twiggy said: “Now all of this has come out about all these men that have done awful things, it never really happened to me.”

Twiggy admits that she was not ever “hit on” due to her dad making her boyfriend always attend her photoshoots. Along with her boyfriend, Twiggy says that Justin de Villeneuve, her manager, was a big help. She “believes [Villeneuve] protected her from falling victim to predatory men in the business,” Daily Mail reports.

Twiggy has been famous for the last 50 years. She has many careers under her belt such as modeling, acting, singing, fashion designing, writing and TV presenting. She was discovered in the mid-60s at just 16-years-old.

She became “the world’s first supermodel appearing on the cover of most major fashion magazines around the world,” her website description says. Even though she was recognized as “the face of 1966,” Twiggy admitted to The Guardian in 2016 that she didn’t really like the way she looked back then.

“I was this funny, skinny little thing with eyelashes and long legs, who had grown up hating how I looked,” she said to the outlet. “I thought the world had gone mad.”

For her acting career, she is the winner of two Golden Globes for the movie “The Boyfriend.” She also has one Tony Award nomination when she debuted on Broadway in “My One and Only.”

Most recently, she received a Damehood in the 2019’s Queen’s New Year’s Honors List for her contributions to fashion, performing arts and charity.