Dahl is largely known for existence the plus-size model. Her right-known function was the magazine & poster ad for an Yves Saint Laurent perfume called Opium, showing her prevaricatiin naked on the blacken velvet sheet. There were numbers of complaints all about a advertizing, sequent around it existence flushed from either billboards in the UK.

As a tike, Sophie Dahl was a inspiration for a character Sophie (the elephantine's helpmeet) within Roald Dahl's The BFG. Of late she has be an creator herself, writing many short stories and in 2003 publishing the novella a Man sustaining the Saltation Eyes, an "adult fairytale" (ISBN 0747563721).