I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

Before you speak words of hatred, so count with peace in your voice to ten.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

I want to find someone who's really magnetic but who isn't going to do anything bad to me. It's hard.

The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds

You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.