I thought I'd take style to its limit... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.

I am an actress first, a singer second.

I thought I'd take style to its limit... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.

My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.

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

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.

When I started modelling, I'd raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don't have to do much to have muscles. It's just genetic.