I am very proud to have done that. Ricky Martin was so sweet, like so not what I ever expected. And, it definitely helped me get back on my feet financially." - on starring in Ricky Martin's video for "She's All I Ever Had.
The pageant was such a fluke. I mean, I was living in an orphanage,
and my foster mother bet me $150 to go out for this thing. Nobody,
including myself, thought that a foster kid could be a beauty queen. -
on being Miss Teen USA 1993
Ever since I was a little girl, I envisioned this exactly happening to
me. Not necessarily doing a movie about strippers but being young and
having somebody like a director like Michael see me and see something
in me and take a chance. And have a process like we have had. - on her
film Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000)