I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

Growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day.

I've always wanted to adopt kids ever since I was 16 years old. I always said I'm going to adopt, I'm going to adopt. There's too many kids in the world that need love and attention, I can give it to them.

You do learn from what you've done in the past.

I knew that there was an underlying thing there that I was never really able to come face to face with. There's a part of me that wants to always protect myself because of what I had gone through. But I learned that you have to let people in. Going to the therapist kind of helped me with that.

No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this.

I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me, but they don't.