When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.
Global warming will threaten our crops, so natural food will be scarce. Hourglass, curvy bodies will be the aspirational beauty standard, representing that those women have access to bounties of fulfilling yet healthy food, which means they are affluent.
My mom was a medical photographer, but on the side, she did a before-and-after glam photography business in the house. She would do makeup and hair - and I was her assistant.
I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.
I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first. My mother always told me that came first.
Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.
I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.
On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!'
My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.
I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.
One thing my mom used to tell me was to look to the other side, and know that my present is not going to be everything. So if I'm having a bad day, she goes, 'Just imagine tomorrow. This is going to be over. This is going to be done with.'
Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.
Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!