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Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is a rhythm.

I was born in New York and raised in South Florida, so I'm an East Coast girl.

Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

The majority of women in America look like me.

Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?