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Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.
My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.
Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.
And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.
I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.
Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.
I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
I'm the female Simon Cowell. He said I'm the scariest woman he's ever met. I asked him why he never dated me, and he said I was too intimidating.
I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.
I've sold everything from fashion, make-up, couture magazines, radio, reality television, movies. There isn't a thing I haven't sold, including Tampax. You name it.
Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.
The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died.