I’ve never dreamed of becoming a model. As a child I was bullied and insulted as ugly

It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan. I try to eat fruit and be healthy. If I'm feeling a bit sickly, I usually get a good spray tan.

I love dressing up and putting on the makeup and the hair and the clothes and just being a different person for a day. Maybe it's just the idea that you can kind of hide behind it all in a way.

In London, I really like going to the Mandarin Oriental. They can even do my feet without tickling me.

I would probably advise myself 10 years ago not to take life too seriously and to just try to be happy.

It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

We're shooting bathing suits down here in St. Barts of course, I do get extra self-conscious. But I'm still here. If there were really something wrong with me, then they wouldn't fly me over here to do this kind of thing - and they can use Photoshop and make me look nice.