I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.

I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

I go every year to the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives and it's spectacular.

I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change. I feel 30 and want to look that way again.

I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.