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

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

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.

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

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

I was always an overachiever.

Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children.