I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.

I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.

The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

To be honest with you, I'm more of a girl's girl. I'm much more comfortable being around other girls.

I mean, like the rest of America, I wasn't really into politics until Obama went into office, so it's all kind of new to me, but I'm excited about it. I've been watching a lot of campaign ads, doing a lot of research for it. It's so different, it'll be interesting.

If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.