A biography for Marie Helvinhasn’t been written yet.
“There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.”
“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 like living on my own. I'm happy for a man to come over. I'll cook for him; he can spend the night occasionally, but then I want him to leave. I'm too independent.”
“To be honest, the reason I have my cats is to force myself to think about something other than myself.”
“When you've been touched by sadness and grief, it makes you vulnerable. And because I am vulnerable, I try to be positive. And when I say 'try,' I really do mean try, because it's an effort.”
“I have nothing against cosmetic procedures, but I don't want my face lasered. Also, people are naive about how much you can do with make-up and lighting, and I've learned from the best.”
“I've never met a size zero person. Is Paris Hilton a size zero? I've met her. She looked very thin, but she looked very healthy. She had beautiful skin.”
“I lead a very disciplined life.”
“Most English people are horrified that I use soap, but I like it - it works for my skin. I try different soaps all the time, but I use very mild ones.”
“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.”
“I loved Le Taha'a private resort in Tahiti. It's accessible only by private boat or helicopter, and it sits on a tiny strip of land just big enough for one hotel. It's extraordinary and faces the Vanilla Island where Tahitians grow vanilla.”
“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.”
“I don't do a lot of looking back; I tend to look ahead.”
“I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.”
“I grew up in neighbouring Hawaii, where Tahiti is regarded as a brother.”
“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.”
“When I began modelling in my late teens, I started to earn a lot of money very, very quickly, but I'd never been shown how to manage it properly.”
“The average British woman is a size 12 to 14, but in modelling, a size 12 is considered huge, which is ridiculous.”
“I wouldn't mind being in a relationship, but there's no reason to marry.”
“We are constantly driven to believe that women should look a set age or be a certain body size, which is fuelling an obsession with ever more dramatic and invasive steps.”