I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father and she hung up the phone on me.

Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.

I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not.

I have given money to the Obama campaign online and now they bombard me with emails every day. Why did I do that online? Why didn't I just walk into an office?

Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked at Avenue M Studios shooting a soap opera and battling being a 17 to 18-year-old playing twins being afraid that I was going to get fired, because who wouldn't fire me? I had no idea what I was doing.

I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.

I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness