Marie Helvin Quotes
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I'm known for my big hair and curls.
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Although I eat healthily, I do enjoy a greasy fry-up, but usually only once a year. I've also got a big Kit-Kat addiction and buy them in bulk.
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My favourite scent... changes every day. I have a cupboard full - so many I can't begin to tell you.
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The only thing I can't change is the elasticity of my skin.
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People were endlessly trying to set me up with 'eligible' men, and I enjoyed going on a galaxy of dates.
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I had a very spoilt childhood. Not that my family were incredibly wealthy, but we lived on the beautiful island of Hawaii where everything was lush and in abundance.
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We don't do funerals in my family.
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I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.
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I love to lounge, and I particularly love to eat outdoors. It's a throwback to my childhood in Hawaii. I have memories of coming out of the sea and eating corn chips with a strawberry vanilla slush.
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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!'
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I'm not keen on the English way of eating outside, on the street. I want food that is clean, not impregnated with toxic fumes.
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Surgery is not going to improve your skin - all it's going to do is make you look tighter, like Joan Rivers!
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I think a mother needs to be with mothers. I don't know what they talk about.
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I don't see myself as the next Carmen Dell'Orefice. I'd rather be fat and happy, sitting on a beach in Hawaii eating pizza.
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The average British woman is a size 12 to 14, but in modelling, a size 12 is considered huge, which is ridiculous.
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Even in the early Eighties, when I was one of the most successful models in Britain, I didn't really have a voice. Time after time, when I should have spoken up, I simply walked away.
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Smiling makes you and others feel better, and it makes you look younger.
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I have sun damage. I cover it up with make-up.
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Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are.
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I don't have children, and I'm not in a relationship, so I have the time to devote to myself.
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I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I have regrets, they will show up as illnesses, they will show up as cancers... I don't want that.
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I haven't eaten meat since I was 17, so I take Vitamin C, a B complex, Omegas-3-6-9, glucosamine, and antioxidants to make sure my body stays healthy.
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I am thrilled to be modelling the debut collection of Always Aliza. Janet Reger was such an iconic brand throughout my modelling career, and it feels great to now be modelling her daughter's range for JD Williams almost forty years on.
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There are lots of things I would love to wear but wouldn't because I know they look stupid on me.