A biography for Sophie Dahlhasn’t been written yet.
“If I had to become a food I would be a pineapple. Spiky, but quite sweet really.”
“I was greedy and ate in that unselfconscious way teenagers do, constantly grazing and eating when I wasn't hungry.”
“I'm naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.”
“My mother tells this joke about how when I was little I used to say, 'Mummy, all I want is a stable home!' and she'd reply, 'That's all right, darling, we'll buy you a stable.'”
“I absolutely didn't think, 'I am really fat, I must get thinner.'”
“I've got to confess... I do feel slightly like I've been born in the wrong time.”
“I don't want to deride London because I have such a huge affection for it, but New York lets you move on and grow up.”
“At 18 I wanted to study art history in Florence. I think I just fancied myself as Sophia Loren, wearing a foxy dress and walking through a market with a basket bursting full of figs.”
“I have no complaints about my childhood whatsoever.”
“Some people get fat when they're miserable; certainly this was true of my teenage self, but as an adult, deliver me a week of extreme stress and misery and watch me disappear.”
“I eat very simple food, really. A lot of it tending towards nursery food.”
“Central heating is my vice - I have it on a bit too much as I am always cold. I try to make up for it in other green ways.”
“I always had boyfriends, whether I was skinnier or rounder.”
“When I modeled, my name always came with a preface: 'the voluptuous Sophie Dahl.' I was the anti-waif, as round as a Rubens.”
“I would never have got involved in something that just meant turning up at eight and leaving at five.”
“I'd love to master another language properly.”
“So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they don't tell the truth!”
“I've been watching a ton of Ali Wong on Netflix. I love everything she does - there's a fearlessness about her.”
“That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.”
“I like good manners, old-fashioned courting, I like being wooed.”