Read my recent article on MyDaily.com and find out why you should gain five pounds in 2011… January 1 is here and you’re stressing about the weight you’ve just vowed to lose, right? Well, stop. Turns out the 5 to 10 pounds many of us gained between Thanksgiving and New...

Miss America boasts ambitious young women with meaningful platforms and dreams of scholarships, while the Victoria’s Secret runway features hot bodes in platform shoes, fueling carnal fantasies. The pageant has a talent factor (ballet, violin, opera singing…) VS has a Hooters...

Looking for a model with more heft than a toothpick? In a recent New York Times article, Guy Trebay declared that designers and editors finally are, in male models anyway. The scrawny skate-rat look is out. The strong man with suits in his closet and stubble on his face (or at least enough...

One of the great perks of working in the modeling industry was having extraordinarily talented genius type roommates all the time. OK, not all the time, but occasionally. OK, at least once. To escape the oppressive heat and an unimpressive model boyfriend, I moved from South Beach to New York...

I led a workshop on modeling at The WonderGirls “Fashion: The Real 411″ event in NYC on May 2. WonderGirls is an awesome company that gives teens the opportunity to meet and learn from successful—and if this weekend’s bunch is any example, super cool—women. The theme...

Crystal Renn gave me a lot of food for thought in her memoir, Hungry (written in collaboration with Marjorie Ingall). Her struggle with anorexia and exercise bulimia, fueled by her modeling ambition, is painful to read. She subsists for years—tender teenage years—on undressed salad,...

“The Betrayal of a Supermodel”—so read the title of a recent article by Sarah Horne in the New York Post’s Page Six Magazine. The writer traced the rise and fall of supermodel Gemma Ward, who whizzed into the modeling spotlight as a wispy sixteen-year-old and got shoved...

Call me a prude (it won’t be the first time), but has the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show crossed the line from sexy to sleazy? When the moves got fancy on the runways I walked, they involved diors and pivots and the unbuttoning and removing of jackets, not suggestive shaking of...