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

Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.

Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.

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

I find it so unattractive when women wear sneakers with their business suits. I wear a nice pair of loafers or low-heeled pumps, and that's that.