I've never really been the type to dress up like the other girls do. I'm more of a casual, relaxed kind of girl. More athletic.

I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted to seem shorter than I really was. It really reflected how I felt about myself. I spent most of my youth in school feeling really insecure about the way I looked because I was different.

Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have to pack it on.

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

We can only stop Cristiano Ronaldo as a team. In front of goal, he's like a machine. You can't shut him out completely; he always gets his chances in a game because of the lines he runs and his excellent timing.

I've actually written a children's film called 'The Myth,' which you could say is like a big 'Harry Potter'-esque fantasy for kids, and that's a film I would love to see get made. That's a dream project of mine.

We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.

We all feel that hunger in football. With Cruyff, it was different. He deepened and changed the hunger so you became conscious of why you are getting better.