Attended junior high school in Clinton, Mississippi.
Started her modeling career in high fashion at the age of 14 after being told to lose almost a third of her total body weight.
Is America's highest paid plus-sized model (2010).
World's first widely photographed size-14 supermodel. (2010)
Release of her book, "Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves" by Crystal with Marjorie Ingall. (September 2009)