I strongly believe every model has a right to set rules for how she is portrayed and for me these rules were clearly circumvented.

Everyone thinks that because my dad was really well known for his body that I would have that pressure too, but the truth is that I don't look at those pictures of him being really muscley and say, "yep that's really what I want to look like!"

I felt ugly, chubby, and stupid until I talked to my mom about it and she had me do a very good exercise that I recommend to every girl. She had me take a piece of paper and write down everything I liked and everything that I didn't like about my body and my life. By the end of the exercise, I realized that I had so many more things in my likes column. It showed me that while there are a few things in my dislikes column, I was giving ALL my attention to those few things!

Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies.

How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

I know every girl has her own form of beauty, its just a matter of discovering it and celebrating it.

There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.