I'm not Laverne Cox. I'm not Janet Mock... I'm just a girl from New Jersey who has experience and lived.

My experience started in the gay nightlife/drag life. I was just as consumed in ignorance about what is offensive to transpeople because at that time I hadn't found myself. I was living as a drag performer only.

Respectable transwomen were not as visible and very unclear in how they defined themselves. I had no one to look up to, pre-transition.

If I ever feel like I don't know what to do next, I always think about WWJD, like 'what would J-Lo do,' 'cause J-Lo for me is like the epitome of feminine sensuality, mixed with show stopping beauty.

I would say what's really interesting about me personally is that I've taken my transgender experience, and I've looked at it on the bright side, on the positive side.

I think that for a lot of people, I inspire them to be themselves.

When it comes to beauty, I try to teach my step daughters to embrace themselves the way they are,and to have fun.

I don't view myself as a 'trans actor' or a 'trans model.' I mean, I am - it's part of who I am - but it's not something that solely defines me.

If people can understand me and accept me as a woman, I'm going to get booked for more jobs.

I would hope that one day there will be a time when it's not so much about transgender, it's just people will just see us as women.

For me, I know I am a trans activist and I try my best to stand up when the time is right, but at the same time, I don't always want to be considered transgender around my friends and people at my daughter's school. I just want to be considered a woman.

It's important to have transgender representation because we represent the forthcoming generation, and their new perception on the standard of beauty - which I believe is being true to yourself, loving yourself and others.

But if you look at Victoria's Secret models, honestly, young girls don't necessarily look up to them for the healthiest reasons. It's more about the envy, the desire to look aesthetically best: it's an unattainable, elitist mindset.

Growing up, I didn't really watch the Victoria's Secret fashion show too much. I really just saw folks who weren't real to me, so it didn't really interest me.

I don't know any lingerie brands that really embrace transgender women at all, to be honest.

When you transition, it's a long process. Some people are so, like, ignorant about it. They're like, 'Oh she's a girl tomorrow.' It's not like that. You have to literally, you take all this medication. It's really hard on your body.

Honestly, when I was a boy and I was out as a gay boy, I never really dealt with anyone bullying me or anything like that.

I would love to do more modeling. I would love to do anything really, mainstream, and help to create, I guess, a feeling of acceptance for people who are different and not look at them like they're freaks or whatever.

The way I see things is that, I think that transgender people are super brave. If you're a female to male, male to female, if you're that brave to take control of your own body and make it however you want it to be, more power to you.

I've learned that my word carries weight, and that's something I have to always have to keep in mind.

Courtney Love gave me advice on how to stay focused. She told me I have a lot of positivity and I have a lot of light and to just stay on that path, because it's easy to become affected by the negativity.

I want to be a successful trans woman burlesque performer.

I want to be a mom. I want to be a wife.

I'm very passionate and believe that every time the LGBT community is featured in the media, people are learning about us.

I always love working with other creative talent.

My coffee usually is very light, very sweet with milk preferably Almond Milk but if not available I take whole milk but I'm trying to go vegan, so I try for at least soy.

My favorite hip hop album would be the 'Miseducation of Lauren Hill.'

Loyalty is my favorite quality in a 'bestie.'

I want to be able to supply the knowledge that transgender women need in order to live peacefully and become accepted among all men and women.

I consider myself an activist for women like me, who want to be confident and don't want to be judged.

Beauty comes from within, but it's up to us to use fashion and beauty to express who we are on the inside.

Beauty is the idea of who you truly are.

Beauty is the ability to utilize the tools provided in order to showcase your spirit in order to show your true soul.

Trans people are beautiful. It's a different kind of beauty, and it should be recognized and respected.

It just so happens that I'm trans. It shouldn't have to be like 'Oh, that's the trans model selling the trans clothes.'

My life isn't really that different from a biological female.

For any model in this industry, you never know if you're going to get work. You never know if people are going to relate to you, and embrace you. And then being trans is kind of like - I hate to say it - but it's kind of like a setback.

Trans women are a part of the female population and I think that they deserve a respectful representation.

It would be pretty amazing for Victoria's Secret to be that huge corporation that embraces trans women. We shop there as well.

For a long time trans people have always been a joke. Our reputation has always been the bottom of the barrel and it's not fair.

I run into a lot of ignorance and stupidity. It gets really frustrating, but you have to take yourself out of it and realize what's happening in the bigger picture.

When you live this trans experience, there's a point and time in your life that you almost stop developing because you don't know where to go.

Everyone else is following these male and female tracks that have already been set for them, but when you're trans there is no trail.

Stepping into the gym or going out to do sports is a scary thing for a trans person - you feel like everyone is looking at you.

Feeling comfortable with your body as you go through a transition is not easy, and honestly, as a trans person on hormones or after surgery, you just don't really know what your results will be, how you'll finally look. Managing all of that is a challenge.

Being a woman means everything to me.

Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I've been set free.

Drag Race' was when I was kind of confused about how I wanted to live the rest of my life and I was just having fun, a little ignorant, a little young.

Luckily for me the public have known me before my transition and I've always had the same body type.

In all honesty plastic surgery these days goes hand-in-hand with beauty maintenance. It's nothing new. Who I am, my body, I was not created from surgery, at all, whatsoever.