All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

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.

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

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.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.