Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.

The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.

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.

My friends say everything I touch turns to gold. I'll say, 'I've been very lucky.

Nothing but beauty and douceur

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

French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.