Not that I believe you can have it all: I believe you can have it all, just not at the same time.

I don’t want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.

The thing I like about my body is that it’s strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse… I can play basketball. It’s a well functioning machine.

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

Modern women – we’re very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.

The body I had at 21, God gave me. The body I have at 31, is one I worked for.

I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest – I don’t want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.

It’s a huge change for your body. You don’t even want to look in the mirror after you’ve had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it’s not like a blank stare.

The good thing about people underestimating models is that the bar is set so low, you tend to impress people more easily.

Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It’s not brain surgery.

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I’m no exception.

I’ve always found that beauty and confidence are synonymous. If you feel confident, that’s what people see.

It’s not like your soul gets older. It gets wiser.

Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals.

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

It’s become another dimension to who I am. I don’t think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I’m at a different place in my life.

I want my home to look good, feel good, and smell good. I want it to be inclusive, to reflect the people who live there.

I think if people are passionate about something, it could be real estate or biochemistry, and that spark gets turned on in them, everyone‘s beautiful in that zone.

If I put on a few pounds, it goes straight to my butt.

Twitter is just like posting old-fashioned press releases, and it can be very effective in promoting your business interests and charity work.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.

I get the hypocrisy thing, but any human being is allowed to have a public and private face, and celebrities should have the same rights as regular people to decide what cards they lay down and what cards they hide.

I don’t look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.

I’ve tried and failed a lot. But I’ve also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I’m a mum, I’m a wife, I’m 44 and from the Midwest.

You don’t even want to look in the mirror after you’ve had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.

It’s important for moms to have alone time. However, that’s the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that’s the way my mind sees it. I have to exercise to be able to fit the clothes and book the jobs.

As my mom always said, ‘You’d rather have smile lines than frown lines.’

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs.All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.

How many girls, models or not, are secure about their bodies? I think I’m more realistic about what to expect of myself now. I also have a lot of other things than modeling going on in my life that I’m proud of.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.

You don’t have to do the picture, you have to do the autograph, but it’s important to take that moment to make a human connection.