We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

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 delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.

I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

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.