Today I'm a more solid, grounded person, positioned to encourage women. I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to be the best they can be.

I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that stage.

I want people to know that blood tests alone won't always detect thyroid disease. My blood panels were normal. I think a lot more people have this disease than are diagnosed.

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.

I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.

I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.

You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers.

I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.

We are all put in different positions for different reasons.

Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.

I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'

I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.

Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

Girls should never be afraid to be smart

Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.

Too many people get caught up in the idea that they are experts in their field and forget to keep growing and learning.

When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.