You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.

I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

Modeling is being a ho, but making it fashion.

I know how to dress for my body to give off illusions, and I like to teach women about it - it's important for women to have that power and that arsenal... tricks that make you feel good when you walk outside.

I don't like the label 'plus-size' -- I call it 'fiercely real.' On 'Top Model,' we call it fiercely real. I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

I think I'm too young to be a mogul. I think I'm too young for that.