There`s all different types of models, and there`re also plus models as well. But the majority is skinny. And it`s controlled by the fashion industry.

I actually eat a lot.

So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you`re on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world.

We start early in the morning with hair and makeup. It depends what time of the year it is. In the summertime we start at 5:30 in the morning.

A woman is a woman!

But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.

Sometimes I travel twice a week by plane.

But I think the most important thing is to find the love of your life and have fun in love. And enjoy and appreciate what comes to you.

And I`ve been overseas to Bali, the Maldives, Hong Kong, Australia, which are all major long flights, all in one year. And then I go to Europe a lot.

I don`t have my name on anything that I don`t really do.

I have to say that there are a lot of models that I work with that are very good friends of mine. And that it`s sometimes like a little family.

I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.

I always try to make my things happen.

So everyone has that problem, models have that problem, too.

I love painting.

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it`s Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria`s Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.

Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing.

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don`t want the public in my house.

Being a Victoria`s Secret model, which was always my dream.

People always starve themselves, and then they get hungry, and then they eat the wrong things, like chips or cookies or whatever they can grab.

I like basketball, and I`ve been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

I never went to a modeling school, and I don`t suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school.

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

There`s many more things I want to do.

I go and train with a personal trainer.

Because I`m on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.

I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

When I came to America, I was really into all the things people eat here. . . . People called me Muffin because I would eat muffins all the time.

"I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back."

"Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!"

Michael J. Fox is a great, sexy, funny, short man. I had so much fun on that show ["Spin City" (1996)]. There was this scene where we were lying in bed together after sex. But instead of having a cigarette, I start yodeling, because I`m German, see? He kept making me laugh, we were cracking up.

I`m very lucky. As I get a lot of role because of my name as a model and I probably wouldn`t have got them without it. You have to make the best of your situation.