My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

I think I'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that's living, or rather it should.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Disco existed before we were all born and will exist afterwards. It is a ritual - it is a celebration - and it is the same kind of music that we call disco or rock'n'roll or a whole list of names that we can call it. Call it what you will, nothing will change the fact that certain kinds of music will make you want to celebrate or party.

Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.

When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.