Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Marie Helvin

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Marie Helvin is a British-based American former fashion model, who worked extensively with David Bailey—to whom she was married between 1975 and 1985. In the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in many fashion stories for British Vogue and posed for a series of nude photographs made by Bailey, which were published in his 1980 book Trouble and Strife. They would collaborate on four more photographic books and continued to work on multiple stories for the British, French and Italian editions of Vogue.

American - Model | Born: August 13, 1952

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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 wasn't interested in having children of my own. I know what would have happened - I'd have been left at home to look after the kids, and my career would have been over while my husband travelled the world.

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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 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

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

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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.

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I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

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I have sun damage. I cover it up with make-up.

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.

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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.

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I hate Botox, but a fabulous-looking friend of mine told me her secret was this gadget that uses electrical impulses to tone your facial muscles. It works!

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.

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I'm 56 - I don't want to look like I'm 20.

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When you live with a photographer, you never have a day off - it was a nightmare.

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There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.

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

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Surgery is not going to improve your skin - all it's going to do is make you look tighter, like Joan Rivers!

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

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Men are intimidated by me: I very rarely get asked out.

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

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.

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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.

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We don't do funerals in my family.

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

Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are.

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 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.

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

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.

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I genuinely have to work - I don't have enough money not to. But the last thing I would want is to be looked after.

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

Marie Helvin

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

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I can't stand small babies. I would rather give birth to a kitten or a colt... a little pony.

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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.

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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

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

Marie Helvin

There are lots of things I won't eat but would like to, such as croissants or ice cream - if I started, I'd scoff the whole tub.

Marie Helvin

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

Marie Helvin

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

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I wouldn't mind being in a relationship, but there's no reason to marry.

Marie Helvin

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

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When you're a model, you learn how to make the most of your assets - in my case, the smallish behind that is the legacy of my half-Japanese heritage.

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I like naughty boys. I was married to David Bailey, who was one of the naughtiest. I like real men, and I like masculinity.

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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.

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If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.

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

Marie Helvin

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

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.

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The two times I have cut my hair shorter, I've ended up out of work - so short hair is not an option.

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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.

Marie Helvin

I'm known for my big hair and curls.

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.

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I was addicted to 'The Monkees' TV programme - not so much because of the music but because of the commercials in between. The programme was sponsored by Yardley, and in the commercial breaks, there would be these English girls on roller skates, wearing hot pants, and I just thought, 'God! How neat!'

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Not having alcohol has kept the weight off around my waist; my skin feels so much better, and I am sleeping really well.

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

Marie Helvin

Fresh seafood reminds me of Hawaii and eating raw ahi fish on the beach with a little soy sauce - instant sashimi.

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

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Sixties models knew nothing about skin care.

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

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

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Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Marie Helvin

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