Quotes from Devon Windsor

I love the Food Network.

I love cooking and baking in my free time and getting outside and walking around, as well as shopping and eating.

I want to show people what it's really like to be in this industry. Because they only really see one side - the glamorous side - but there's so much more to it.

I aspire to be an icon in a womanly, healthy way. I don't want to be some skinny, gaunt model nobody can relate to.

I love Sunday Riley Hydro Active Face Oil, Clinique Acne Solutions Moisturizer Cream, and Weleda Skin Food if I'm working a lot, since it's so thick and hydrating.

I'm kind of naturally thin, so if I were to completely crash diet, I'd almost be too skinny, and for the VS show, you want to look strong and muscular and fit. Leading up to the show, I eat everything that I normally do, but I moderate it.

Models will always get a bad rap about weight, but I love to eat.

I'm a really active person. I feel gross when I'm not.

I put on moisturizer on my face and leave-in conditioner in my hair before I go to bed. I'm blonde, so if I don't put in leave-in, my hair will break.

For exercise, I am doing a lot of Pilates. I am very tight and not very flexible, and so it is a nice balance between stretching and doing exercises.

Pilates is definitely my favorite workout because it's hard but at the same time relaxing.

I'm blonde and a model, so you can imagine the constant damage my hair receives.

I did, like, every workout class in New York.

I don't really like to run or do traditional workouts. I find them very boring. I like to mix it up.

Pre-workout meal, I eat eggs over toast with cheese because I need that protein before I work out.

I try a different cookie recipe every time I bake.

I am a huge fan of the supermodels from the '80s and '90s, like Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford. My ultimate favorite is Daniela Pestova. She is the epitome of a strong, healthy, sexy woman. I like working out and being fit, so I look up to women like her.

My signature dish - something I've been making since I was 10 - is angel hair pasta with shrimp and feta in a white-wine basil sauce with tomatoes, because it's absolutely amazing.

We get put down a lot in this industry, and I think when you're really young and you're not used to it, it really hurts you.

I am not so bad, actually, at doing my own makeup, so for more low-key events, I'll do my own, but for something like 'Harper's Bazaar' Icons Party, I would definitely get a makeup artist or a hair artist if I had time.

Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays.

I was in middle school at a bat mitzvah, and a fashion photographer, Suzy Gorman, came up to me and asked me if I considered being a model. I did a shoot with her, and than I signed with an agency in Saint Louis.

I use Bioderma, because it's very gentle, water-based, and it doesn't irritate the skin.

My favorite airport snack is probably either a smoothie with berries and Greek yogurt from Jamba Juice or an Auntie Anne's pretzel because I cannot walk past Auntie Anne's smelling that without eating it.