When I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky and read it inside a copy of Elle or Vogue. But it would be pretentious of me to say I was more intelligent than the other supermodels.

I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.

I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

I can no longer seduce because I love my husband. I don’t want to hurt him. I am no longer a man-eater.

I do think it's smart to see a marriage as "a garden and a gardener who constantly swap roles." You really have to switch from one to another. Being the gardener would be the more active role in the situation. Being a garden would be more passive. You've got to be both the one who gets help and the one that's helping. That's the circulation in a couple. You should switch from one position to another. I think it's good to be always aware that love can fade. There's something I really like about that sentence. It's as if love should be seen as work...because it is.

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.