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Growing up, I remember watching TV, and I didn't see a lot of people who looked like me, especially someone who passed as a glamorous model on a mainstream TV show.

Where I come from, out in the suburbs, I didn't know anyone who was a professional actor. And girls that looked like me? No girls like that were on TV.

I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.

Before I got into TV, I wasn't fashionable at all.

When I was in high school in America, I didn't see anyone who looked like me - hardly ever. I just thought that was normal because you don't know any better. So I used to idolize so many other people, like Sarah Michelle Gellar on 'Buffy.'

I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up.

Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.

At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'