"I have to be honest with all this #MeToo stuff that's come out," she says. "I have had so many inquiries about whether or not I have been put in any sort of funky situation. The one thing I do know for sure is that somewhere along the way, God gave me a crazy backbone.
"When I was on set with a strange photographer and put into a peculiar situation, I was the a------ who would walk off the set, call my agent and say, 'I'm not doing that shoot. That guy's a creep.' "
So what would trigger it?
"The way they were wanting me to be in photographs. I was the one backstage ripping the cameras out of guys' hands when they were trying to snap pictures of us when we hadn't gotten dressed yet. I was weirdly the vigilante."
And to a degree, she paid a price.
"I got quite a bad reputation in the industry, because I wasn't necessarily compliant all the time. At the time, it was like models are to be seen and not heard. But I was a young woman with a lot of opinions. There were a lot of things I wasn't comfortable with. A lot of people had not met a girl like me."
She had no fear about putting her foot down, if the circumstance wasn't right. "I walked off a huge set for a very important editorial with a very important photographer. I never worked for them again."
So what was objectionable?
"It was just the context in which they wanted the photographs. I was supposed to play this very submissive character," who appeared to be cast in a bad p*rno movie.
"You know, hands on the throat. They appeared to be depicting some sort of weird fantasy. I was just like, 'No, I'm not doing this today.' I was in no mood to sit around and role-play with some weird male model."
