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

Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

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

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

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.

Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.

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.