My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she’d make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5’8" and weighed 165 pounds.

Alt contrasts an ordinary, convenience-oriented American childhood diet with the later body expectations of the fashion industry. By listing pot roast, spaghetti, hot dogs, and TV dinners, she evokes a familiar middle-class food culture rather than a curated “model diet,” underscoring that her early life was not shaped by professional thinness. The specific height-and-weight detail functions as a before-and-after marker: it frames modeling as a turning point that altered her relationship to food, body image, and self-presentation. The quote also implicitly critiques how modeling can redefine “normal” bodies as needing transformation to meet commercial ideals.