Oh my god, this is so cute.
And it says: Gigi, Bella and Anwar, you guys don't like me to take pictures of you anymore
but I know that in 20 years from now, you will really appreciate these photo albums.
Life has been great.
I'm so lucky to be your Mommy.
I treasure you and every day we have together.
You're growing up way too fast, but I guess time flies when you're having fun.
I love you.
Mommy.
If I think about my children, who they are as human beings, I mean this really represents
them the best.
The mother and daughter relationship is the most important relationship in your life.
It's an unconditional love that you will never really understand until you have your own
children.
That was really the purpose of why I wanted to do the show, to help Moms and daughters
reconnect and go on this journey.
I mean it's so amazing to see like school pictures.
I used to do hair and makeup at the school plays and be the class photographer and stuff.
I wasn't raised with fashion magazines.
I didn't know anything about makeup or walking on heels, like nothing.
I went straight from the barn into the industry, so I had a lot to learn.
But I think that my Mom gave me such a great foundation that I was very mature for my age.
My girls were raised very Dutch.
We're very kind of humble, black and white.
Say it as it is.
Yet, we're very polite.
When I went through my divorce, I packed up my three kids and moved to Santa Barbara,
so my son was 18 months.
And the girls, 5 and 6.
Or 4 and 5.
So their whole life was in Santa Barbara, in a little farmhouse, riding horses every
day.
And then later on when they were teenagers, they moved to Malibu for 3 or 4 years, before
they went off to college.
Birthday parties.
First dances.
Gigi as Spiderman.
I mean, it's hilarious.
And you know, Gigi always wanted to be a model.
Bella never wanted to be a model.
I mean she never even liked the camera.
I couldn't take a good picture of her because she was always goofing and laughing and making
jokes.
I mean even this.
This is when I was still modeling and my Mom brought Gigi to Hawaii and at lunch time,
she came to see me on set.
Look how cute.
We dolled her all up.
They've been riding since they're 2, 3 years old.
And they're still riding today.
It's really the reason why we're back on the farm.
It's amazing to see them on the cover of magazines from so many different countries.
I mean from America to Holland to France to Germany to Thailand to China.
I had a very strict rule even when Gigi got older.
She was like, Mommy, there's lot of kids that model when they're 16.
I'm like I don't care.
Nobody starts working in that industry until you're 18 years old.
Today she looks at me like thank you.
Thank god I had the two extra years to grow into who I am as a human being, before I was
put out in the world to be judged by everybody.
I'm my children's anchor.
I know when too much is too much.
I know when I have to bring them back to the farm.
I have to get them back on their horses, make sure they sleep enough and just completely
disconnect from that whole world that yet, is so important in making a career.
I think for them, coming on the show, and talking to the girls and making the girls
understand that they are human.
They deal with anxiety.
They deal with, you know, insecurities.
Body image problems.
Just like every other teenager or young adult.
Both the girls, I always said listen: there are a million beautiful girls out there, probably
more beautiful than you are, so in order to set yourself apart, you have to be the hardest
working girl on set every day.
You have to be kind.
You have to be grateful.
And that's what people remember.
They don't remember your pretty face.
Like I said, there are millions of pretty faces.
So I think what sets the girls apart, is really their work ethic and who they are as human beings.