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Sophie Dahl

Profession : Model

Birth : September 15, 1977

I had a fantastic time as a model.

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I am not ashamed to admit that I'm wearing Yves Saint Laurent from top to toe.

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A formative cookbook for me was Nigella Lawson's 'How to Eat.' Its warm, conversational tone is wonderful.

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My cooking is incredibly haphazard, but I've never pretended it was anything else.

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I remember being home alone when I was about 13 and making a souffle from a recipe in one of my mother's old cookbooks. I approached it in a very unafraid way, and produced a rather beautiful one.

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I have no complaints about my childhood whatsoever.

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It was a really lucky childhood and while, yeah, there were bits of darkness, which is known about because my mother has made no bones about her struggle with depression, the overriding memory of it is a very happy, good one.

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I wasn't lonely as a child. I was the eldest of four and always had lots of people around me.

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To my detriment I'm quite rosy-visioned about the idea of love. It's slightly embarrassing but it's part of who I am.

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I think that if you really love a book, there's nothing nicer than to have a first edition of it.

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I certainly wouldn't feel safe telling people I was writer.

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Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life.

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I've spent a great deal of my life one way or another talking about food or eating food.

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I do love cooking, but our kitchen is nothing fancy or hi-tech.

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I still don't know what the 'ideal' woman is. Waifs will always be in demand because it's a lot easier to design for straight up and down rather than round curves. This is the reality, unfortunately.

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There's no pressure on me to be a particular weight. But I loathe being renowned as a 'larger' model. It makes me cringe.

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I should be allowed to be voluptuous or scrawny of my own volition, without people going on about it.

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I love sushi.

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When I was at school I wanted to be a writer and an actress. Then this whole modelling thing happened.

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I get asked about my weight endlessly. There is no story. It doesn't merit so much talk.

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