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Birthday: Feb. 25, 1965.

Birthplace: Detroit.

Occupation: Model and writer.

Current home: New York City.

Marital status: Single.

Car: A black and tan 1996 Jeep Cherokee.

Working on: Besides modeling, I contribute to Forbes Digital Tool, an on-line magazine. My column is called “Webb on Web.” I also write for other magazines, I have a screenplay in development and a book coming out next February.

Favorite childhood memory: The summer I was 4, my mother got me a little blue sundress with bunnies and carrots on it.

Prized possession: My mother’s love.

Personal heroes: Jesus, Malcolm X, my parents.

Nobody knows I’m: Afraid of heights.

I wish I could stop: Smoking.

I’ve never been able to: Do a backflip.

I’m better than anyone else when it comes to: Making sweet-potato pie.

If I could do it over: I wouldn’t have been in such a rush to grow up.

I’d give anything to meet: Nelson Mandela.

My fantasy is: I’m in Barbados with a bunch of kids and no worries.

The worst advice my mother ever gave me: Never get married.

People who knew me in high school thought I was: Aloof, because I am.

My most irrational act: Going to Paris with a one-way ticket and $100 to try to model when I was 19, but it worked.

The best time in my life: I hope I haven’t had it yet.

The worst time in my life: When my father died when I was 26.

Major accomplishment: Learning to speak French, being a good daughter and teaching myself to be a writer.

The three words that best describe me: Get-up and go.