I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.
My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but had to go to junior college first to get my GPA up. I did a half-year of junior college, then dropped out and had my daughter. College was always an opportunity to go back. But she, my daughter, was my support. I gave up everything for her.
I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.
I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.
My parents were very proud of me. After they passed, my career doesn't mean as much to me.
It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.
I gave myself a year to be a supermodel. And I said, 'If it doesn't happen, I'm going back to school.'
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.
I can always go back to education.