Quotes from Kelly Brook

I'm really good at growing roses.

I've always paid my own way, I've never lived off anyone.

I've loved acting and dancing since I was a kid. Before anyone thought I was pretty or before I had a voluptuous figure, that was what I was going to do.

I think I'm quite good at being sexy in a unthreatening way.

I don't think I'm misunderstood, but there is definitely a certain side of me that the press focuses on - my body, my hair, or who I'm dating - which has never really served me as an actor. It's served me in the commercial world, making money as a model, but the media perception has really hindered my acting career.

The thing is I really struggle with commitments, so committing myself to six months to a year in a soap opera... I don't think it would suit my lifestyle. A few days working on a project is enough for me, and then I get bored and am ready to move on and do something else.

Sometimes, if I see a picture and I can make it a bit better, then I will, like everyone else does. I've been Photoshopped in every picture since I started modelling.

I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want to be threatened by you, you've got to be warm, you've got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything.

I eat everything. I love it! I couldn't deny myself food. What a waste of a life.

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do.

People think if you are a celebrity and if you're beautiful, or if you're slim, then life is a bed of roses. Or they think that if you're wealthy, you don't have normal relationship problems, because why would anyone reject you?

I can be high maintenance for my work when I have to look good, but in my day-to-day life, hanging out at home, I'm happy with no make-up on and my hair in a ponytail.

I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of bad things bouncing off it. Boom, boom, boom, ba-boom, ba- boom!

I love flying around the world doing what I do - that keeps me so busy.

I go for regular facials. But I think the secret of great skin is to keep it as clean as possible, so I go without make-up on my days off.

I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.

I love glamour and being sexy and dressing up, and I think it's good to be confident.

I'm not thin. I don't starve myself.

I'm into wellbeing, not because of social pressures to look a certain way, but because I'm interested in living a long, full and healthy life.

My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.

I do Google myself. Not that often, though, and the stories are always rubbish.

My most annoying habit is laughing all the time. I can't stop giggling. I do it because I'm nervous.

Sex keeps me fit and healthy. What can be better than that? It's not about crazy diets or gym workouts.