Jerry Hall at 70: Texan icon says the secrets to her youthful looks are her organic diet, her enduring love of fashion and her daily vices of wine and cigarettes… and she still refuses to set foot in a gym

Jerry Hall will celebrate his 70th birthday on July 2 by hosting 200 friends, family and an Elvis impersonator at his Henley garden.

The icon insisted she ‘doesn’t really feel 70’ and as someone who loves to party, she certainly doesn’t look like it.

The Texas beauty still rules Vogue covers as a grandmother of three and is as unapologetic as ever about aging to the beat of her own drum.

‘She always told us that beauty comes from within,’ her model daughter Lizzie once explained of her mother’s ethos, a mantra that is at the heart of her secrets to looking as gorgeous as she does at 70.

The fashion queen heralds the importance of a vibrant wardrobe, telling British Vogue she’s horrified by the ‘old lady who’s all beige and wears ugly shoes’ stereotype.

‘I think it’s fun to dress in a way that suits your body. I’m very lucky that I haven’t lost my figure. So I think I should be able to wear anything.’

Her favorite store is still Vivienne Westwood, and she says she can spend ‘hours’ at Liberty’s designer jewelery box in London.

Jerry confides in his daughters Lizzie, 42, and Georgia May, 34, whether he is wearing something too old or too young for his age, explaining: ‘I still try to dress fancy, but not like my girls.’

While the designer loves shopping sprees, she surprisingly relies on a much more affordable and holistic approach to skin care.

I admit it rarely happens Wearing sunscreen, Jerry took his skincare regime back to basics by using a daycare cream. face wash and face cream ‘and that’s all I do.’

“I use natural products and I don’t buy anything that says anti-aging because I think that’s insulting,” she said a few years ago, explaining how she buys most of her products at her local health store.

For years, she’s sworn off using raw coconut oil to keep her long blonde locks healthy and hasn’t even considered cutting her mane.

She told Vogue: ‘There’s always this thing; “You get older and you have to cut your hair short and have short blue-gray hair,” he said.

‘I think this is a very ugly look. I don’t think you should do this, no matter what the magazines say. We must defend our right to be old and look good!’

Her holistic approach to beauty also applies to her health. “I’m not going to the doctor,” he once said. Never! I think medicine is bad for you. ‘I don’t want to find anything wrong with myself.’

The Texan beauty still graces Vogue covers as a grandmother of three and insists she “doesn’t really feel 70”

Jerry trusts his daughters Lizzie, 42, and Georgia May, 34, to find out if he’s wearing something too old or too young for his age (pictured with Elizabeth)

He has long been an advocate of Ayurvedic medicine, believed to be the world’s oldest holistic healing system.

Based on the belief that health depends on the balance between mind, body and soul, practitioners use herbal potions, special diets and massages to maintain health.

In his sixties, he would visit his Ayurvedic doctor twice a year “to balance my system.”

‘They take my pulse, give me some herbs and tell me what to eat and what to avoid,’ she said. ‘They oil me too, it’s very nice. It’s like a detox. ‘I’ve been doing this for 30 years, I think it’s a good thing.’

Unlike his peers, including Kris Jenner, who turned 70 last year and had her make-up done, Jerry opposed this situation. Following the boom in cosmetic procedures and enhancements for older women in Hollywood, she said: ‘See the photos Oscars.’

‘Look at the women! They look terrible. ‘I guess some people have to do it for their careers, but I’d rather retire.’

He insisted he would never get it botox or fillersmusing: ‘What’s the deal with the wrinkles? I have a lot of wrinkles but I don’t care. I’m 70 years old, I must have wrinkles. ‘I don’t want to look weird, I don’t want to scare my grandchildren.’

Her favorite shop is still Vivienne Westwood, and she says she could spend ‘hours’ in her designer jewelery box at Liberty’s in London (a photo taken with the late Westwood in 2001)

Jerry still has bad habits, drinks rose water every day and smokes 10 cigarettes a day, and likes to throw parties and long summer lunches with friends (photo taken in 1987)

Jerry has a bad temper; He drinks rosé every day and smokes 10 cigarettes a day.

A natural hostess, she loves nothing more than inviting her girlfriends to stay with her for long, slow weeks in the summer, where they’ll enjoy meals prepared by a private Italian chef and each course is always served with wine.

‘I like to drink wine with lunch and wine with dinner; “If I have guests, I always drink wine,” he says.

The woman, who adjusted her diet accordingly according to her age, said that as a 16-year-old model, she visited Paris bakeries every morning to buy fresh croissants and that she was “crazy about bread and chocolate mousse.”

Times have changed, with Jerry long avoiding sweets and refined sugar, which he says are ‘so bad for you’.

Her beloved Henley garden, where she spends long summers lounging with her girlfriends, provides all the exercise she needs while she enjoys daily gardening.

She is not fashionable and never eats fast food, always eating three meals a day filled with plenty of organic vegetables and fruit.

Eggs or oatmeal for lunch are followed by soup or salad for lunch and ‘lots of stew, fish, chicken, meat and vegetables’ for dinner.

Growing up in Texas as one of five children, his childhood shaped his diet; He once explained that because of the family’s ‘very limited’ budget, ‘we just kept eating the same thing until it ran out – some weeks it was carrots’.

Her beloved Henley garden, where she spends long summers lounging with her girlfriends, also provides her with all the exercise she needs.

Jerry, who insists he has never stepped foot in the gym, keeps in shape by gardening, walking and doing some yoga.