I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.

My features are completely ethnic.

I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British Elle. It was April 14, 1986.