"Sophie Dahl" is an English author and former fashion model. As a writer, she completed her first novella in 2003 entitled The Man with the Dancing Eyes and followed this with Playing With the Grown-ups in 2008. In 2010 she wrote Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights, a cookery book which featured recipes that were recreated for a six-part BBC 2 series called The Delicious Miss Dahl.

Born in London, Dahl made her debut on the English catwalk in London's Fashion Week in the Autumn of 1997. That year, she was discovered by Isabella Blow, who was then a stylist for Vogue (magazine)/Vogue magazine. Blow introduced her to the management at the Storm Model Management/Storm Model Agency in London who signed her to a number of modelling campaigns including those for Versace, Alexander McQueen, Patrick Cox, DKNY, Boucheron and Pringle of Scotland/Pringle.

Dahl is the daughter of actor Julian Holloway and writer Tessa Dahl. Her maternal grandparents were the children's author Roald Dahl and the United States/American actress Patricia Neal. Her paternal grandparents were the actor Stanley Holloway and the former chorus dancer Violet Lane. Dahl was the inspiration for Sophie (BFG)/Sophie, the main character in her maternal grandfather's book The BFG. She is married to the singer Jamie Cullum.

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She's changed since she's been with him. I just don't want to get involved.

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I don't think I could be a wallflower with a body like this.

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In the golden half-light of a midsummer's evening, the sort where any kind of magic can occur, and often does, in the midst of a party held in a wild and rambling garden, stood Pierre, teetering on highly unsuitable heels, surrounded by a symphony of overripe roses.

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I'd rather be treated like any other model - being booked because a client likes the look of me, not because I'm size 16 with big tits. There's nothing sexual about model's typical androgynous skinniness.

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