I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don’t eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39. – Marie Helvin
I’m well trained. The only reason I am this slim is that I have to fit into the clothes. The samples are size 8, and I am naturally a size 10 to 12. I have been on a diet for my entire life. – Marie Helvin
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. – Marie Helvin
I go to the gym four times a week for 45 minutes to an hour without fail; I like using weights for muscle tone and the bike and rower for my heart rate. I do quite a lot of floor exercises. – Marie Helvin
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. – Marie Helvin
It would be nice to see a fashion range that is geared towards a vibrant, sexual, confident 50-something. – Marie Helvin
I’m slim for professional reasons, and I work at it. I really want to continue working. There aren’t that many models who are still doing it at 60. – Marie Helvin
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. – Marie Helvin
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. – Marie Helvin
My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot. – Marie Helvin
I think I’m living in the wrong century. I would have made a great courtesan. Not a mistress – I could never be kept – but a courtesan with my own rules. – Marie Helvin
I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn’t the be-all and end-all. – Marie Helvin
There are loads of women that don’t want children. What does it matter? I’m still a woman. – Marie Helvin
Not having alcohol has kept the weight off around my waist; my skin feels so much better, and I am sleeping really well. – Marie Helvin
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. – Marie Helvin
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. – Marie Helvin
Surgery is not going to improve your skin – all it’s going to do is make you look tighter, like Joan Rivers! – Marie Helvin
Myself and my two younger sisters and brother were paid for any chores, whether it was washing pop’s car, sweeping the lawn or picking mangoes. – Marie Helvin
If you believe, as I do believe, in reincarnation, they say that every time you come back, it’s because you have to finish something. I’ve a funny feeling that my thing in this life is to have one relationship after another. – Marie Helvin
I don’t wear mini-skirts or shorts because I have thread veins on my legs and cellulite, and I won’t wear tights. – Marie Helvin
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. – Marie Helvin
I can’t stand small babies. I would rather give birth to a kitten or a colt… a little pony. – Marie Helvin
