Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.

Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.

I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.

Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.