“She loves fashion, she’s unafraid. She uses her imagination, which is something we should all strive to do.”

Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.

I never went after character payments. I’m pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.

I don’t like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt.

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

I’m elated. I guess it’s better late than never. Welcome to the 21st century. It’s fantastic. I love Dior, and Rihanna is very much one of my style icons. I’m happy they got there in the end. I adore her style.

Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom.

There’s not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back

I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it’s everything.

Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

Business is hard, really hard, but it’s worth it.

My daughter has fulfilled all of my dreams, because she has a BA and MBA in business. She’s both a financial analyst and a plus-size model. She has the best of both worlds because, in modeling, you have to have something to fall back on.

Most Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our country has millions of children who are suffering from lack of food. We must all work together to save our country from this problem.

My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, ‘What if she’s ugly? You’re ugly.’

Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.

My dean gave me permission to model during my work semester, even though I was in the Criminal Justice Department. I don’t know whether I’d ever have become a model if he hadn’t let me do that.

I have a picture from the end of the shoot, and in it I have lost all my hair.

I never wore a single fedora filming L.A. Noire. It took about an hour and a half to do the hair – it was a very precise process.

Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think – no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There’s an inherent irony.

The story was a sleeping girl in a narrow bed Dark hair thick and wild and twisted like seaweed across the pillow.

There is snow on my face and wind in my hair and winter has nearly stolen me. But as I remember the words of our song then spring still owns a part of me.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don’t take it too seriously.

Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it’s filet mignon.

I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that’s changed my entire perspective.