Molly Sims Reveals She Was Called 'Too Fat' and Shamed for 'Crooked' Nose Early in Modeling Career (Exclusive Clips)

In an upcoming episode of 'Getting Grilled with Curtis Stone, Sims also shares she was told she was "too blonde"

Molly Sims' early modeling days weren't easy.

In exclusive clips of the April 7 episode of Getting Grilled with Curtis Stone, Sims, 50, reveals some of the tough conversations she had with those in the industry when she was starting out.

In one clip, Sims candidly shares that once she "crossed over into modeling," all the focus was on how she looked. She says she never knew her nose was crooked, but when she became a model, no one let her forget it.

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Sims says photographers would ask her to move left and right to adjust in frame — to accommodate for her nose.

"Finally after two weeks of modeling, I'm like, 'Is there something wrong?' There like, 'Your nose is crooked. You're not symmetrical.' And then, you know, 'Too fat, too big, too blonde, too dark.' I mean, it was definitely a stressful time," she tells Curtis Stone in the clip shared exclusively with PEOPLE.

Sims reveals that these conversations resulted in a drastic change in her relationship with food, but she maintains that she had a lot of support from her parents through the difficult times. She admits that she got pretty "thin" at one point because she was vehemently told she was "too fat" and would absolutely never work as a model.

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In another clip for the upcoming episode, shared exclusively with PEOPLE, Sims touched on how she got into the conversation of discussing her looks. She tells Stone that the reason she was hearing in the industry that she was too big was because she was trying to break in during what was known as the "heroin chic" era.

"I entered the modeling world, you know, the modeling world when it was Kate Moss. It was very anorexic," she says before acknowledging the bad connotations of how modeling was classified in the 1990s.

"It was right after Christy [Turlington] and Cindy [Crawford], so it was that time of, like, Kate, where it was super skinny, super androgynous. So it was a little bit of a weird time for me to enter," she continues.

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Sims admits that during the 1990s — after she'd dropped out of school at Vanderbilt to pursue modeling — she was struggling to find success because she didn't have that "one look" that was booking the jobs.

And then she did start booking jobs because the industry turned. She booked the covers Vogue España and Vogue France in the late '90s and she credits Gisele Bündchen and Karlie Kloss as other models who led the charge in changing the game.

Tune into Sims' podcast episode of Getting Grilled with Curtis Stone on April 7 to hear the rest of her story on her modeling career and more.

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