My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself, really, ever. I still have trouble calling myself a model. I just never thought I was tall enough or skinny enough.
I'm a model, but I love to eat.
In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.
I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
When modeling agencies were saying that I was too big and gaining weight, my mom said, 'OK, we're going to discuss what they're saying over pizza, and we're going to plan the future of your career which doesn't involve you having to be skinny.'
I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.
When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.
I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.
I started modeling at 28. I'm 5-feet-7 1/2, and I never went on a diet. I followed what my doctor told me: 'It's good to have a little bit of fat. Your weight is fine. Don't go any lighter.'