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I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.

I was lucky to have parents and people who believed in me.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

I looked like an alien, and in front of the most beautiful people on TV.

I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.

I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.

The thing is I always believed in myself. I always believed that I was going to be the best in the world.

There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.