I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general.

No one should ever be ashamed of going to meetings. It's healthy, it's therapeutic and it's the right way to live.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?

Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.