Quotes

There was really nothing extraordinary about my childhood. Just like all the other kids, I walked to school, came home for lunch, and played outside after school.

To be honest modeling was just a job like any other job. I didn't get carried away with it because my family kept me grounded. Though we lived in New York City, my parents' value system was shaped by the Wyoming Valley. They stressed hard work, doing one's best, and maintaining a sense of humility.

Acting wasn't something I really wanted to do. As a model I had to take acting lessons and I was offered the contract. But I never actively pursued it.

[on retiring from modeling] I had no regrets about walking away. I wanted to get married and have children and you can't really raise a family and be a full-time professional model. Besides I was always busy doing a lot of of volunteer work at my sons' schools.

[on the modeling industry back in the 1960's] It was a very different industry than it is today. You didn't have the same pressures (i.e., short deadlines, intense competition, anorexia, designer drugs) that now exist. We were very protected, especially working for "Seventeen" magazine. The Ford agency was also very careful with young models. It was just a more innocent time.