When Dizzy was performing, I was looking at him and pinching myself: “This man is actually my employee? I’m employing Dizzy Gillespie?” It’s quite a feeling! His performance was on Easter weekend. My husband bought a big lamb. We cooked it and invited all the musicians. We had a feast that Dizzy Gillespie always talked about.

When I got asked to put together some scene work for Sex and the City 2, I was looking for a romantic comedy. It sat on my desk, and I remember thinking, “What am I going to do with this now?” Eventually I got to it. That was my first romantic comedy. It’s kind of strange when you play pretty hard characters, which I’ve been playing. What I’m trying to say, it was great because it was me just becoming me just having fun. It was brilliant just to be able to portray myself. Obviously with a character I don’t walk around naked, of course.

Gifting suites have become a big business. Celebrities are almost guaranteed to show up. The appeal? Getting free stuff and getting your picture taken for the whole world to see. It’s an incredible opportunity if you’re a star. I’ve seen A-listers to C-listers to no-listers walk out of a gifting suite with so much swag they needed their entourage to help them carry it all to their cars.

About three years after my training, I picked up quite a few clients, and it was word of mouth from there. I never really advertised. The kind of work that I do, I help a lot of people. It goes really deep. I deal with cancer patients—they lose their hair—I have swim caps. I just do a lot with patients as well. I think my work is not just swimwear. It runs much deeper than that. I could probably write a book on the stories that I’ve been told from the women that I fit and how I’ve helped them. So there’s something deep about my work. It’s not just swimsuits.