Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.

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

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

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