Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

I spent much of my life hiding.

I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.

I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.

I never went wrong by being myself.

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

The future belongs to thouse with open minds aand open hearts, who can appreciate beauty in all it's forms.