If all else fails, a few deep breaths.

Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.

I definitely think that being a model makes it more difficult to be taken seriously. And I understand. I don't take it seriously sometimes.

I don't even know what would have happened to me had I not become a model. I don't know if I would have gotten out of Oklahoma. I was so young when things started happening for me and I realized I could make a living.

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

My mom was proud but very hands off. She didn't really know enough about the model industry, and she didn't have the time to stop her life to go chaperone me. I think she trusted me.