With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

We only have one body, and you have to show respect for it.

French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude - being comfortable in our skin.

French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they have bought and made. It's a deeply natural love, but one that is erased in many other cultures. Most French women learn it from their mothers, some from their fathers. But if your parents aren't French, you can still learn it yourself.