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Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

I didn't even know I was considered plus-size until I was on the red carpet here in L.A. one day and a lady said, 'How do you feel about being a plus-sized girl in Hollywood?' I was like, 'What's she talking about?'

With 'America's Next Top Model,' I've always cast girls who the industry might call 'plus size' but I like to call 'fiercely real.' That was always important to me.