I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.