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I wanted to hold this up because this is the cover I don't abuse the
obscene this is the cover the New York Times Magazine with tire on the cover
it's one of my very favorite covers about time even on stories I haven't
worked on
so I just wanted to showcase its so great answers today
is the Obama on we're celebrating
in some large and small measure Obama's I'm
anniversary a hundred days a 103 days I thought we would start this with
I'm kinda cool for your show which is when you had a bomb on the show
yes how early in the campaign was that when did you
I am I don't know might've been a year before election day or so
I'm and I'd say video
Obama mania was just starting
how I you know he had a couple love guards with him but it wasn't like
what of course for the in the campaign what he needed and
but my crew was like beyond excited and I have to say it was
the most nervous I have ever been for an interview
my body was physically shapely there was a vibration her
that was it was so surreal for me that I had
you know up the possible President of the United States
sitting on my stage and I even told him I think the edited it out
because I looked a little amateur couldn't like filling here
okay I'm speaking and then after the interview it was a
I'm it was an hour long interview was the very first interview that I ever did
where we didn't do commercial breaks
well we did a whole straight our through
because we didn't you know like want me to lose my moment and he had to get
somewhere and if I said okay we'll be right back if people says no he has to
go
so no breaks at all and the most nervous
ever I've been in after I went to my control room with my art director
an executive producers and I'm a very nervous stomach which we talked about
and you
interview me and I i'm I had to take like
My Lanta I am I come as bernie & burning burning burning
yeah when you were growing up it must have been either you know
you always talk all it must have been either go out for sports or
yeah become a model I was on the I'm team up
every every sports team there could possibly be an elementary school I was
on the baseball team I was on the
volleyball team I was on the base I'm sorry and I'm
soccer team I was on every team but I was on the bench
because I I was tall so the coaches alike
oh that's great a half but awkward hell
really like I don't know what it was I was so awkward I remember one time the
coach put me in a volleyball a sprained my
arm I have to happen like a the same I kinda castles like
wants to take on and off cast I'm
with baseball you know there were two band members a bus on that team and I
was the 10th on the bench
I basketball the coach would put me n
for the a for the we call that free threads
no no not the fresco no
I yeah I think separate of cuz I was tall and I do that type of an ego
goodbye I'm bank I
yeah so thank God for some modeling I can use the hype for something so how
did you how did you
how did you become a so graceful and be why did you decide to take
go into modeling what was the there is someone in school right who came up to
you
yeah I'm I think the awkwardness was just you know being five
8 and and I don't know twelve-years-old their tires olman
bones just were ready in the feet were already a size nine and it just was
you know just took a while to come together and I remember that and I
people used to stare at me all the time but not like oo xil
looks like some exotic my girl I know it was like she's our side
high places actually morphed like I use to
look kind of like an antelope in Africa where the
eyes are on either side of the face it's true I and my eyes are very far apart
mean they still
are but like with makeup and stuff with districts we'll get to that later
%ah to make things were different but I
so people use the kindest air was also ninety eight pounds
I Y 59 laugh you know when I was like
thirteen-years-old I'd I lost all this weight was
getting taller and taller did not this my brother you guys so my brother
my brother used to making peanut butter and chocolate shakes after school did
try to help me gain weight not going helped but one day it first day of
school night great this girl came up to me
NamUs is carefree Riley and I'm she's a beautiful girl and she was like you know
you like it should be a model in May so you could model
I and I was like what you know people stare at me but not for that
and she kinda took me under her wing and taught me everything and she started
modeling
think later in the ninth grade she started kinda early and then I started
in the
11th grade when I was 15 so when you went to Paris
went to Paris very prepared yes but you went to Paris without your mom you went
by yourself
yes I was 17 yes which is 17 years I graduated a year I wouldn't say your
early I started school early so I graduated at 17
so we kind of connected it to as if I got accepted to
University of Paris so this or ball or something like that ur
Oxford you note is going abroad for college
except I was working as a model and why aren't you terrified
I was so terrified but I never wanted to show my mother and my father that I was
terrified and they took me to the airport
and I'm they couldn't go past a certain a rehash yeah
sexually a back then you could take your family to the gate right in the date
right but I mean the in the international section you could so they
they left me at the security checkpoint like my daddy my mommy
and I turned away from them and I was like you
I'm doing this the whole time like waving like this with a kid
yeah I was like so scared and I remember I was
a my seat was very back at the plane near the bathrooms on my
so 11 hours a smiling you know what 0 Girls High
and it was near the smoking section cuz back then there were some smoking on
airplanes to
Mike times have changed fashion date myself and now when you top model do you
think
what I'm putting you through is nothing compared to what I went through or do
you
I think the girls have it so easy I mean that in the top models apartment I mean
there's these
core just apartments that we come up with every year with
theme it's gonna be in it so posh in cars are taking them everywhere
they do have the pressure of competition and elimination every week
but so do you and your model when your modeling yes I can do in a way I can
simply share the elimination just definitely
on but it's a lot more posh for them
initially when you catch the show nobody thought it would work need no not really
yeah I had um a lot people tell me that this wasn't going to work that
that models are unsympathetic characters actually is my agents not my agent
the st. Joseph's and is my agent now she's at endeavor which is now W in
w.me lume entertainment or whatever
now my MW me entertained yes I'm
but no not Nancy Nancy spent at emerge with way more yes they did
yes I my agent before that he told me models unsympathetic characters nobody
wants to see this
and I was tired from telling me know this already been like that the idea
that I had and I'm like what it what other ideas that I tell him that he said
no to me that I listened
I can't have liked more showcase I no weekends after
I but but so finally aside from saying no and I and I took it to a friend of
mine
that's a writer and heat-inactivated can market his agency
nice older without my agents
yeah agents still got Commission I
with my agent located in even know I was going to network Wow
that everybody took a meeting with you I'm everybody took a meeting yeah and we
pitched it like I have stood
up because I knew who I want my cast to be I walk in acted like Miss J honey
capita
don't I over all the networks I sir did
acted out everybody they must've loved it they loved it not everybody bought it
but they were upset
I and that didn't and now you have another show on TV which is sorta inner
beauty
yes which I didn't actually see so I can speak knowledgeably about you have
decided yet TTT
which you have with Ashton Kutcher Ashton Kutcher and I a
are doing this project together a lot of people are like why are you an Ashton
Kutcher doing this project together how did that happen
first much judy is a show I'm where these there these very vain contestants
and they think that we're judging them
on their outer beauty but really they're getting eliminated week to week because
they're ugly on the inside
and this is your second second CIR you already had it once you doing it again
don't know just like
just because it's that kinda show where it's a big secret and then sanctuary
millionaire its
out so now everyone knows yet you can ever do it again
have to reinvent yes yes have at least 20 other things that you think of course
when I have to like pull myself back
I definitely focused i'm writing i'm looking at on
couple things like an hour looking at feature film spell really that's great
looking at feature films right now actually and I'm publishing books
possibly a book series that will go into feature fan I know that they wanted to
do another
your biography again now I had heard that they after the story came out
people were approaching oh yeah
yes okay I wanted to do that again they added the athletes you
yes yes how to do that though I think I'm too young for that I do too
yeah I did psych wet when the Indus like and then I just about all have a talk
from to somewhere shows the ins
lol but for some know that would be pretty great I don't know that that's a
pretty it gets to be like barbara walters et to talk about all the crazy
stuff
yes home and love it