I always talk with models and they always tell me how awful it was growing up being tall and skinny. Then when you're older, you're really glad. I think it's nice to have been through a terrible time and then all of a sudden be so lucky because then you appreciate it.

Growing up in Texas, mum had five girls to feed on a very limited budget, so we'd end up eating the same thing until it was gone - some weeks it was carrots.

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

My face and body have been a tool for my career, and I'm very conscious of that aspect and try and keep it the best I can.

Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war.