27 Quotes by Laetitia Casta

I enjoy being a woman. It's what I learned from years of experience in modeling. You learn how to seduce; how to be sensual, how to play. It's very important for a woman, I think. But it's not by beauty that you seduce. It's a meeting - it depends on the image the other reflects back to you, how they see you and make you feel.

When I began as a model, everybody tried to remold me: I was too fat, too little, they tried to re-shape my teeth - I am very proud that I have stayed as I was.

I tell people my breasts were made in Normandy from butter and creme fraiche.

I love food: hamburgers, pizza, gnocci, mashed potatoes, and especially chocolate. I enjoy eating for the sake of eating. Sometimes I feel sad for the models who don’t eat. When you love food, you love life. When you love life, you love to love.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That’s what makes me feel good.

Water makes me feel at peace. In Corsica, I spend most of my time on the beaches or in the rivers. That’s one reason I love it there so much. The water is so clean and fresh – you can drink it straight out of the rivers! This island is my secret garden.

There is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

My family is the most important thing in my life. I would love passionately to have my own children. To have a baby inside me – it’s one of my dreams in lie. I would love to hold my children, to run to them, to give them the same happiness my family gives to me.

When I began as a model, everybody tried to remold me: I was too fat, too little, they tried to re-shape my teeth – I am very proud that I have stayed as I was.