In a new interview with People, the 35-year-old looked back on the early days of her career. "I have olive skin," she said. "They'd kind of lighten my skin a lot in photos and kind of take my hips down all the time — they would always kind of cut off in editorials."

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"I always had such a good team around me, that was family," she said of how she managed the darker sides of fame.