If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

The best part of work is always working with people and getting to know them and having the sense that you're not actually working.

I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break from being a mother or running a charitable organization and other philanthropic projects that I'm really passionate about.

Keeping up with everything I do requires some sacrifices, but once and a while I need to take some time to myself.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.