There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.

There is absolutely no planning and strategising involved in my career graph.

There were a few models who used to stay close to my building. I used to admire them and tell my friends that I did. Those models told me get into modeling.

Motherhood has made me a much better person. I see everything from a new perspective - with a sense of wonderment.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne Frank was. He was a theoretical physicist and the last Jew to get a Ph.D. in Amsterdam.

My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.

I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.