I you started your career as a model. Can you tell us how that came about and what sort of things you got up to as a model?

Well the sort of things I got up to.... (laughs). I started when I was 15. I had looked through my sister's magazines and I saw how much money models make.

I was 5 foot 9 already, at 14, and so I sent some pictures to a lady in New York and John Casablancas flew out to meet me and sent me a ticket. My first job was going to Rome, Paris and Milan within a month, doing the collection for Italian and French [Harper's] Bazaar. I always worked, and it was great.

We gather you danced a lot too?

Yeah, I love ballet, all forms of dance I can do. I'm trained and everything. I can do ballet, tap, jazz, ballroom, tango. You name it, I can pretty much do it. I'm more of a dancer than anything else in my soul.

Were you tempted to approach Joss Whedon or David Greenwalt to see if you could dance in the episode Waiting in the Wings, because there was a lot of ballet in that?

I didn't know about that because I wasn't in that episode, so they don't send me the scripts I'm not in. So then I saw it, I couldn't believe it. I'm like, "What about me, what about my needs?!"