Sexy super-model Petra Nemcova admits to weight struggles. Nemcova says she naturally is not super then and has had to be on all kinds of crazy diets.

Model Petra Nemcova knows what it’s like to struggle to be a size zero in order to stay on the runway – and says she went on brutal diets and even took laxatives to stay thin.

“I went through so many diets in my life. I’ve been very, very skinny. I’ve been a size zero but I’m naturally more curvy,” she tells PEOPLE. “I ate just vegetables, carrots, tomatoes. I went from a just-protein diet to just eating apples to eating no carbs. I took laxatives. I went through all of it just to be able to model.”

Petra’s comments come on the wake of the ban on ultra-thin models in a Madrid fashion show.

It is funny to hear every designer come out now and say that they all prefer girls with curves. It is just not true, because if it were they would have been using girls and guys both who didn’t look like Skelator. Excuse the bitterness. Been there, done that.