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

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

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.

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.

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

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

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.