I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.
I got to host a radio show. I got a clothing range. I was the face of fashion week. I got to do a whole television show with kids.
I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there.
I was invited to a couple of races, but I was doing a play in New York.
I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.
I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.
I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.
I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.