A biography for Sophie Dahlhasn’t been written yet.
“My size wasn't something that I'd ever spent a huge amount of time thinking about - I guess at the age of 17 or 18 you don't.”
“My grandfather loved the countryside.”
“It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a writer, you are in control.”
“I wish my grandparents were around to see my children.”
“I think with girls you have a real responsibility in terms of how you discuss the physical. Talking about your looks or body in a derogatory way doesn't do them any favours.”
“On my raw food diet, my skin shone bright like a gilded deity and my eyes glowed in a somewhat unearthly manner.”
“It's so easy to fetishise the dead. We rose-tint or villainise them, and so often in the retelling they are saints or sinners, rather than flawed humans muddling along like the rest of us.”
“My mother Tessa married my stepfather, James, when I was three and we lived in Boston for a year.”
“I'm always either listening to 'Hamilton,' which makes me cry, or Giggs, who makes me laugh.”
“When you meet someone who really sees you, it gives you the emotional freedom to pursue your dreams.”
“When I began modelling I was completely unprepared for the onslaught of curiosity it carried with it.”
“Find me a first novel that doesn't have parallels with the author's life.”
“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.”
“None of the sample sizes ever fit me at the photo shoots. One would think that would've made me want to lose weight, but I just got rounder.”
“I was an odd mixture of quite theatrical and shy.”
“There is nothing better than a proper breakfast.”
“I was an only child until I was six.”
“I lived on an ashram in India at 12 and later I was a heroine in a Bollywood movie - I'm not telling you the name because I was terrible.”
“I wasn't lonely as a child. I was the eldest of four and always had lots of people around me.”