"I love cooking fish pies." — Sophie Dahl

My younger sister, Clover arrived three days before my seventh birthday and I wanted to sell her. I'd had my mother, stepfather, and nanny Maureen, all to myself, and suddenly there was this bonny baby with green grass eyes that everyone adored.

My family is as complicated as the next family. We have our joys and our tragedies, and we bear both with a black humour that is in our genes.

How I view my body hasn't been uncomplicated, but that was because my body was discussed and dissected at great length in a very public forum, when I was at a formative age.

For me cooking is a pleasure, it's a relaxing thing.

It is hard finding clothes that fit. At the German Vogue shoot most of the clothes were undone at the back.

I have always been tall. When I was five, I towered above all the boys in my class, so it is something I have grown up with.

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I love cooking fish pies.