She prepared a speech explaining her love of animals, which included the shocking confession.
I feel now might be the time to reveal a few of my most painful memories.
I did not have an easy childhood.

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Despite loving parents, I was molested from age 6 by a female babysitter, the 46-year-old said.
The models first heterosexual experience was not by choice.
He was 25 years old and I was 12.
Her first boyfriend, Anderson admitted, decided it would be funny to gang-rape me with six friends.
She found salvation in her empathy toward animals.
It came to me naturally.
The trees spoke to me.
The party reportedly raised more than $150,000 for her friend Vivienne Westwoods favorite charity, Cool Earth.
Representatives for Anderson did not immediately respond to EWs request for comment.