I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

There is nothing more attractive that a woman who is sure of herself.