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"I'm professional, I show up on time, I get along with the clients and people--the staff, makeup artist, stylist."

Q: How many girls did they look at?
A: A couple of hundred.

Q: How many were ther with you that day?
A: Fifteen.

Q: Did they see you one at a time or just line you up?
A: One at a time. For a commercial call you go into a room and they can ask you to wear a swimsuit and they can ask you to wear heels and they can tell you what to do and you're on camera. You give your name, your profile. Basically you do what they want you to do. It depends on what the commercial is. Sometimes they make you drink ice tea or act goofy. For the L'eggs one they just [have you] show off your legs.

Q: How do you feel at one of those castings?
A: It's how they say it, a cattle call. I feel like, Mooo, next!

Q: I imagine most of the girls there are White and Black. How do you feel as an Asian?
A: I used to feel like, Oh my god, you know. It was like really strange when I got the commercial because I thought, Wow, they're using an Asian and there are all these beautiful caucasian and black girls.

Q: Do you feel more confident now?
A: Yeah, I do. I really don't think about it because you have to like psyche yourself out because with every audition you go on, you can't get every one. Your self-esteem goes down when you keep missing for a while. It's only natural for you to think to yourself, Oh my god, what's wrong with me? Am I fat? They don't like my hair? When you go into these things, you can't think about it. When I walk out, I don't think about it at all.

Q: How does your work break down between runway, print, commercials, and of course, movies like Rising Sun and Clean Slate?
A: I think it would be like 30, 30, 30.

Q: And 10% for movies?
A: Yeah. Clean Slate, they hired about ten of us models and we're doing a fashion show on stage.

Q: Do you have acting ambitions?
A: I don't think so. I wasn't born with it, I don't have that drive you should have. I don't have that want in me to be an actress.

Q: Do you have a desire to be anything in particular right now?
A: Successful in... I don't know what!

Q: What about being a top model?
A: That's what I'm striving for right now. It it doesn't work out, I don't think I want to go back and do it all over again [as an actress]. Modeling is hard as it is, but I think acting is even tougher because in modeling you're basically relying on your looks, whereas acting you have to have the right look plus acting ability.

Q: What do you think made you as successful as you are? Is it purely your looks?
A: I think my attitude too.

Q: What about your attitude?
A: I'm professional, I show up on time, I get along with the clients and people--the staff, makeup artist, stylist. I know a lot of girls--the people [who] work with [them]--the photographers and what--say they are really hard to work with.

Q: Is that like the kiss of death, when word gets around that you're hard to work with?
A: I don't have an attitude, you know, like a model attitude, like, I'm hot shit and, you know, I'm this, I don't want you to do this with me and treat me like this and get me this. I don't ever do that. Everyone's treated equal, I believe.

Q: If there's a model whose success you'd like to emulate?
A: My model has always been Christie Turlington.

Q: Why?
A: I always think she's really beautiful.

Q: But you can't be like her, can you? Whose career path do you look at and say that's the path I want to follow?
A: Angela Harry. I've worked with her on several jobs. She's very professional. I would like to get to her level of success.

Q: What commercial would you really like to do? Something you'd be perfect for?
A: [long pause] Cosmetics.

Q: Do you have a beauty regimen?
A: Not really. I do what everyone else does, put on face cream, stay out of the sun. I drink lots of water.

Q: How many glasses a day?
A: Seven. You always see an Evian bottle in my car.

Q: Do you have a serious boyfriend?
A: No.

Q: Who are you close to?
A: My roommate. She's a little blondie. Actually, she's quite tall. She lived in the Orient for a while and loves my cooking. I like to cook. I've lived with her four year.

Q: Is she the significant other in your life?
A: Yeah, but we're not lesbians or anything like that.

Q:Then you have plans for marriage?
A: I want to get married when I'm about 35 and have two kids, a boy and a girl.

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