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

I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out of that sometimes. And when you do that, you grow.

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

It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

It's good to do things that are out of the norm. I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out of that sometimes. And when you do that, you grow. And growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day. And that's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.