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www.MOSTmag.com || FITNESS MAG A ZINE || 61MFM: As a very successful model yourself-what advice can you give to aspiring models and people who haven%u2019t made it big yet, but are trying to do so?TD: Never give up.. Things don%u2019t usually come easy to the vast majority of us. Beauty comes from within. Be humble. Treat everyone with respect and be disciplined and focused. Those are your best attributes in whatever you do. So if you want something, go for it, and don%u2019t let anyone tell you otherwise.MFM: You graduated with honors from Northern Virginia Community College-Where did your interest in business originally come from?TD: It%u2019s been something that I was basically born with and been around all my life. My mother was always a business owner, and I learned a lot from her. I also have to say that I started to grow more in the business world with my exhusband James Davidson, because he is a private investor so I got deeply involved in the business world with him. One of the reasons I chose my long time friend, and now boyfriend, as business partner Eitelberg Montarroys, is because he is very sharp in the business world, and I am learning from him day after day. He is another inspiration. It%u2019s very important to have someone, almost like a mentor, as a partner in my life, guiding me, because it%u2019s a tough world out there, business-wise. The competition is like none other. And I like it. I like the challenge.MFM: What made you decide to make your own fitness a priority in your life? There are a lot of thin, beautiful women out there, but who don%u2019t realize the importance of being toned and muscular and in shape, so how did you decide that it was important and you wanted to focus on it?TD: I%u2019ve always been in shape, and being in shape has always been important in my life. I started ballet when I was three years old and then also did jazz, and I was a swimmer for my school. After I got pregnant I gained 50 pounds and thought oh my, I%u2019m never going to lose the weight! I remember my mother looking at me in the hospital saying my poor daughter, she will never get her body back. But I%u2019m always being challenged, and two months later I was back to my old self. I didn%u2019t diet, but I worked out a lot from weightlifting, interval training, and exercise. But as my son got a little older, I stopped having time for myself which is why I decided to