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" Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering. "

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" 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. "

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" My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model. "

" I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling. "

" In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness. "

" Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives. "

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

" I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery. "

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

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

" It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks. "

" I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two. "

" I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty. "

" Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender. "

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" The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job. "

" I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike. "

" 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. "

" My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there. "

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" I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking because people hadn't seen a woman actually riding a motorcycle before. "

" Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis. "

" You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying. "

" Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV. "