I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. I also believe it's always better to meet people with a smile rather than looking cold, especially when you first meet. It changes everything.

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?'

Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

Never underestimate the power of the ocean.

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

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

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

I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.

I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.

Keeping it all together as a modern woman means multitasking, especially when you work. I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it. I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

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

I learned from working in the fashion world that if I have a day when I feel slapped in the face, or if someone has been mean, I just have to get back up and it will be another day. I think about what I'm grateful for. I look at my kids and my husband and think, Wow, I'm a really lucky person.

I have a whole army of pajamas.

My motto is to go wild on the accessories - the belts, the hair clips, the jewelery.

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

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it.

Sometimes random things that you wouldn't think mean anything mean so much to them. With kids, you can say, 'Let's go pick some flowers' or 'There's a snail. Let's investigate that.'

I'm bad at baking. I'm bad at letting go of things. I'm probably bad at reading.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.

I'm quite scared of flying, and especially helicopters, I don't like them at all.

I feel like looking in the mirror when you brush your teeth, yes, I see lines, and then I smile and I see things here and there. But that's just, you know, you - that's your journey, you know?

I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in order to get things done, you do have to be a little bit bossy sometimes or tell people what you really want. Otherwise, things just don't get done, do they?

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

I never went to a modeling school, and I don't suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school... In fashion, one day you're in, the next you're out.

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.

I have always been too round to do fashion shows.

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

I'm bad at baking.

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.

I sing a lot, even with my voice.

Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

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

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

Some people are born skinny, and that's just the way it is. You can't point a finger at them and say they're ill or anorexic. It isn't fair to people born that way.

I'm not that patient sometimes. I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

I was being rejected all the time. Agents would say, 'I don't think you're the type they're looking for.' I was always like, 'You think? I don't want you to think. I want them to think that.' This business is all about someone's opinion, but not the agent or the manager's. How do they know? They're not that person.

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

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 actually eat a lot.

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

I love painting.