I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.

I know some good old gals in their 50s and 60s. All these women tell me, 'Forty to 50. Those are the hot times.' So far, you couldn't prove it by me. But hell, I'm only two years in.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.