Marie Helvin Quotes

“Whilst I may look good, I do find it hard to find the right man.”

— Marie Helvin

“A secret control slip is a wonderful invention. It sculpts and lifts the bum and smooths the hips.”

— Marie Helvin

“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.”

— Marie Helvin

As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.

— Marie Helvin

“But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother.”

— Marie Helvin

“Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are.”

— Marie Helvin

“I always wear the same thing: a tight white shirt - I have about 50 - and tight black trousers.”

— 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

I definitely think men prefer women more undone and natural than butch and masculine. They prefer a fresher, sexier, more feminine look.

— Marie Helvin

“I don't have any children, but I can leave my land to an animal sanctuary. That is what I dream about, not bags, not shoes.”

— Marie Helvin

“I don't have children, and I'm not in a relationship, so I have the time to devote to myself.”

— Marie Helvin

“I don't particularly like children. That sounds awful, but I have nothing to say to them.”

— Marie Helvin

I never get asked out by men my own age, as they all want to go out with 20-year-olds, and the men that do ask me out are too young.

— Marie Helvin

“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 think a mother needs to be with mothers. I don't know what they talk about.”

— 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

“I'm not a pretty-boy kind of a girl; the Brad Pitts don't do anything for me.”

— Marie Helvin

“I'm not bothered about clothes. Never have been.”

— Marie Helvin

“It would be nice to see a fashion range that is geared towards a vibrant, sexual, confident 50-something.”

— Marie Helvin

“Monogamy is not something that's important to me. I don't think it defines love.”

— Marie Helvin

“My livelihood depends on my surface beauty, but when I wash my face, I see a real person there.”

— Marie Helvin

My marriage to David Bailey ended one morning in 1983, while he was away on a photo-shoot.

— 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

“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

“Sixties models knew nothing about skin care.”

— Marie Helvin

“Smiling makes you and others feel better, and it makes you look younger.”

— 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

“The only thing I can't change is the elasticity of my skin.”

— Marie Helvin

“There are lots of things I would love to wear but wouldn't because I know they look stupid on me.”

— Marie Helvin

“To be honest, the reason I have my cats is to force myself to think about something other than myself.”

— Marie Helvin

“We don't do funerals in my family.”

— Marie Helvin

When I do wear heels, I prefer to only wear them to dinner, where I'll be sitting down most of the time.

— Marie Helvin

“As a girl, I lived in jeans, and my love-affair with them continues. Since I turned 50, jeans have become something of a uniform, whether it's a slouchy boyfriend fit for daytime or a leaner, fitted jean in a darker denim for evening.”

— 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

“For most of us, no matter how slim, middle-aged spread really does set in, and your waist thickens, irrespective of whether you've had children or if you exercise regularly.”

— Marie Helvin

I am thrilled to be modelling the debut collection of Always Aliza. Janet Reger was such an iconic brand throughout my modelling career, and it feels great to now be modelling her daughter's range for JD Williams almost forty years on.

— 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

I lost count of how many times photographers and designers would tell me to lose a bit of weight, especially as I got a little older and my body started to develop.

— 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 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 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.”

— 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'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've slipped enough times over the years to know the peril of a too-smooth sole, so every time I buy a new pair, I take a pair of scissors or a piece of sandpaper to the bottoms to roughen them up. In my catwalk days, I even used to spit on the soles of shoes before I ventured down the runway.”

— 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

“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.”

— Marie Helvin

“My fashion icons are Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner. Their classic looks and clean lines should be the cornerstones of your wardrobe - white cotton shirts, black Capri pants, pencil skirts and ballerina skirts.”

— Marie Helvin

“My sister Naomi and I always wanted to go to Tahiti. We planned a fantastic holiday to visit several islands, but at the last moment, Naomi cancelled. It was the first time I'd holidayed alone, and it was absolutely the best.”

— Marie Helvin

When you get older, your skin tone changes; your hair probably changes colour, whether you dye it or not, and you just can't wear the colours you used to like anymore.

— Marie Helvin

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.

— Marie Helvin