I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.

The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco.

I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.

When I am not working as a model, I spend time with my family or working on my art projects in my studio.

During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.

It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.