98 Quotes by Marie Helvin

I lost count of how many times photographers and designers would tell me to lose a bit of weight, especially as I got a little older and my body started to develop.

I never get asked out by men my own age, as they all want to go out with 20-year-olds, and the men that do ask me out are too young.

The average British woman is a size 12 to 14, but in modelling, a size 12 is considered huge, which is ridiculous.

Whilst I may look good, I do find it hard to find the right man.

I am a vegetarian. I don't want to have anything injected into me that I can't eat. I am a real health nut. I look after myself well.

I'm spoilt. I like my own space. I don't even own a microwave, and men don't like that. They want to be looked after.

I was addicted to 'The Monkees' TV programme - not so much because of the music but because of the commercials in between. The programme was sponsored by Yardley, and in the commercial breaks, there would be these English girls on roller skates, wearing hot pants, and I just thought, 'God! How neat!'

I think I'm living in the wrong century. I would have made a great courtesan. Not a mistress - I could never be kept - but a courtesan with my own rules.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.