“When she’s 16 she will get my clothes,” says Kate, 34.

“All those Pucci numbers and things that I wore when I was 17 that I won’t really wear … I’m saving them for her.

“That’s my blackmail: ‘Don’t eat your dinner and you won’t get my clothes. You won’t grow and you won’t get into my clothes.’ ”

The catwalk queen recently said she would not like to see her daughter, whose father is magazine editor Jefferson Hack, follow in her steps and become a model.

By the sound of things it might be too late...