When I was a child, I named my rabbit Pancake and my guinea pig Maple Syrup.
Sophie Dahl
When I write about things, it's a lot to do with sense memory. How things smell and taste can bring incredible memories flooding back and transport you in an instant to another time and place.
I'm naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.
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 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.
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.
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.
When you meet someone who really sees you, it gives you the emotional freedom to pursue your dreams.
I go out to dinner occasionally and that's the sum of my dating life.
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.
I remember being home alone when I was about 13 and making a souffle from a recipe in one of my mother's old cookbooks. I approached it in a very unafraid way, and produced a rather beautiful one.
My relationship with food has always been uncomplicated.
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.
I think that if you really love a book, there's nothing nicer than to have a first edition of it.
I grew up with my grandfather, so I knew him really, really well. He was funny and opinionated and wonderful. He was fascinated by things and always curious.
I didn't finish my A-levels so there was always a part of me that wanted to be taken seriously.
I think it would be a bit miserable going out with somebody who was totally uninterested in food.
I'm always either listening to 'Hamilton,' which makes me cry, or Giggs, who makes me laugh.
I can't eat at all when I get sad; all I want is soup and easy-to-swallow baby food and, of all things, jelly babies.
I'm sure there were people who were disappointed that I got slimmer, but as one gets older one does often get a bit thinner. There was no great mystery: I had some puppy fat and I lost it.
My family is as complicated as the next family. We have our joys and our tragedies, and we bear both with a black humour that is in our genes.
I think everyone goes through a phase of longing to be little - I always wanted to be a girl who could sit on a man's lap, but that is just not going to happen.
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.
My grandfather loved the countryside.
My cooking is incredibly haphazard, but I've never pretended it was anything else.
I've started running since I had kids, and I've become one of those annoying people who likes running.
On my raw food diet, my skin shone bright like a gilded deity and my eyes glowed in a somewhat unearthly manner.
That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.
I absolutely didn't think, 'I am really fat, I must get thinner.'
My modeling career was really just a long accident - one that happened to coincide with my chocolate-cake phase.
I always had boyfriends, whether I was skinnier or rounder.
I come from a family of greedy food lovers.
I wasn't lonely as a child. I was the eldest of four and always had lots of people around me.
I like routine, and cooking became a ritual when I was modelling in New York. My life was nomadic, so making supper felt like an announcement that I was home.
I am not ashamed to admit that I'm wearing Yves Saint Laurent from top to toe.
I like good manners, old-fashioned courting, I like being wooed.
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.
My mother, all of her sisters and my siblings all went through a stage from the age of about 15 to 19 where they widened and then lengthened. Had I not been modelling, that would have been a phase that was in a family photo album rather than in Vogue.
I was an odd mixture of quite theatrical and shy.
I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of bygone eras.
The most evocative food smell is American seaside food - tuna melts and cookie dough ice cream, or the British version, fish and chips and toffee apples.
There's no pressure on me to be a particular weight. But I loathe being renowned as a 'larger' model. It makes me cringe.
I love cooking fish pies.
I eat very simple food, really. A lot of it tending towards nursery food.
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!
My siblings and I had a loving but very chaotic and muddled childhood, and as a result we have sought out lives that are consistent and stable, domestic and happy.
I didn't like being a model. It feels weird to stand in your knickers in front of people you aren't married to.
I've been watching a ton of Ali Wong on Netflix. I love everything she does - there's a fearlessness about her.
I have become that middle-aged woman who listens to the 'Hamilton' soundtrack in my kitchen.
It is hard finding clothes that fit. At the German Vogue shoot most of the clothes were undone at the back.
