Brigitte Nielsen

A tall woman can be just as feminine as a petite woman. ”

I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre. ”

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. ”

The way some papers write about me, you'd think I was some kind of gold digger. The truth is, I've always earned my own money. Before I became a model in Europe, I even worked in a bakery store - for $1.50 an hour. It's a big jump from a bakery store to driving a Mercedes in California, but I'm the same person inside. ”

I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours. ”

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation. ”

If people only knew the truth about being married to Sylvester Stallone. ”

Being cuddly has nothing to do with size. ”

I like to be controlled, but that doesn't mean controlled like a dog. ”

I was 13 when I reached my present height. I was so skinny I looked like one of those starving people in Africa. The boys in my class would beat me up because I was too tall. ”