Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That's something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.

Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

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

I've never known my real father, and I've never looked for a father figure in a boyfriend, but I suppose I have looked for real father figures in my life - and I've acquired more than one. I certainly couldn't ask for better ones. I love them enormously - and they know that.

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