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

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.

I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?

I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.

You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket.

You might plan how to sleep but you can't plan how to wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planer, he who plans out to wake up is a Dreamer.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

Do not kick people when they are down because you will surely fall right beside them.

Life is frustrating enough. Your hobby isn't supposed to put you over the edge.

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

I also feel like I've done plenty of wrong things. I'm not innocent here, and I'm certainly not going to be righteous about that.

They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.