I’ve been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I’m not going to work against my people. They’ve suffered enough.

I don't get depressed. When I feel an attack, I withdraw. I disappear, I replenish, and then I come back.

Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no', then I find another way to get my 'yes.'

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

My features are completely ethnic.

When I started out modeling, there weren’t casting directors and there weren’t stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then...