It's so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way.

But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I'm not perfect.

I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.

I do have 14 tattoos, but I also do come home every single night and watch reality TV with my cat.

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

Listen, if you were with me on a plane? I'm embarrassed for the people who sit next to me. I have such a regimen! I, like, pound on the face cream because your face will dry out, I get the stuff you put in your nose so no nose germs come in, I take elderberry for immunity, I wear a scarf.

I don't see anyone as being different than anyone else, whether you're gay or straight or whatever - everyone's the same. That's how I was raised.