Quotes

I have a beer belly.

I love fashion, but I'm not obsessed with it.

You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.

Not all models are meant to be actors.

After one particularly grueling season at the couture shows in Paris in the summer of '94, I decided that was it. I came home and applied to NYU.

[posing nude] I respect and admire people who can be comfortable in their bodies and comfortable naked. If I'm working with somebody that I trust and I have respect for and I understand their vision, then I can take some risks. If I can trust that person capturing it and I know what they see and I know that my comfort is going to make that image that much more exciting, interesting, whatever, then I can go there.

[her son's rival school basketball team sharing nude photos of her] I was surprised it hadn't happened sooner. But at the same time, I was like, 'This is so rude!'

As children, we traveled to El Salvador on vacations. It was so close to California that it didn't feel like we had left the country. What I remember most is the tropical climate and smells that came with it, wafting through open courtyards. On drives from my uncle's home in San Salvador to their farm in the country, I became aware of the health and wealth disparities. Roads were unpaved and electricity was inconsistent, but it was peaceful.