To be completely honest, I never thought I could become a model growing up. I actually wanted to be an entertainment journalist.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of real friends, and the people I was friends with, I've grown apart from - they were frenemies more than anything.

When I got older, it got harder because when kids get older, they get meaner, so I went through a lot of bullying and people calling me, like, 'zebra' or 'cow,' so it was really hard growing up.

I faced challenges as a kid, but who hasn't? A lot of people have experienced far worse. I was bullied, sure, and it was painful at the time. I even quit high school to get away from it. But I've never been the kind of person to let my past predict my future.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

My parents had job jars because my father would say, 'Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You're going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.'

I grew up singing in church. My family owned funeral homes so I would sing for the occasional funeral, as well.