My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.

Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.

I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My diet was really starvation. I am not naturally that thin.

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.