Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.
Manila is like a small New York. Nothing works, and everybody's out to get the better of you.
I've been put up in great hotels from a very young age, so I've been spoilt. What I can't stand is when I arrive somewhere and the room isn't ready. You call housekeeping, and it takes them three hours to get the room into shape. I'm afraid to say that the Hilton in London was not too good on that score.
Puberty was the most horrifying time of my life.
I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change. I feel 30 and want to look that way again.
I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.
Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.
The Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles is the best.
A tall woman can be just as feminine as a petite woman.
It's fun playing a more feminine part. I can identify more with a woman of passion and emotion than with a cartoon character. Who knows what a cartoon feels?
In Denmark, when you marry, whether you have $1 million or just $10, you share it.
People think I'm strong as hard as I look. But I've a very sensitive side and need to be loved by everyone.
The way some papers write about me, you'd think I was some kind of gold digger. The truth is, I've always earned my own money. Before I became a model in Europe, I even worked in a bakery store - for $1.50 an hour. It's a big jump from a bakery store to driving a Mercedes in California, but I'm the same person inside.
I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.
Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date.
Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.
I go every year to the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives and it's spectacular.
I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.
When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job.
