I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling when I'm not famous any more.

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability is simply attracting the best-educated most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

If I could sell 500 million records every time it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager in a very kind of model version of it.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous which is acting and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics and I think math is the cat's meow.

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.