Excerpt: 'This Year's Model'

Sept. 25, 2008— -- She's been called the most beautiful woman alive by Playboy, and believe it or not, she doesn't cook a thing! Supermodel Carol Alt switched to a raw food diet in which she stays away from heating anything she eats.

Alt stopped by "GMA Now" to show us one of her favorite raw food recipes and to dish about her juicy new novel, "This Year's Model."

You can watch Alt whip up some banana trfile by clicking here, and please find an excerpt from the prologue of Alt's new book< "This Year's Model," below:

JFK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
February 14
6:19 AM

I thought I was safe a minute ago when I literally sprinted past Cinnabon, but an empty stomach can really play tricks on the brain. Only now there's a whole procession of chocolate, peanuts, licorice, and assorted Gummies leaping onto the counter to slink and sashay and sell it, sell it, sell it Call it candy bar couture. Unfortunately, food is my nemesis, and the one thing you cannot escape—it's everywhere! Tearing my eyes from the evil array of temptation at Hudson News, I stride toward the puzzle books—I don't need sugar; I need some sudoku to occupy my mind—and nearly collide with this kid. Tall for her age, but still a baby. She stares at me and it's as though my Puma tracksuit has been stripped away and I'm standing there in that gilded Oasis bikini, the one they let me keep.

"Oh . . . my . . . God!"

Reflexively, I look over my shoulder, sure she has spotted a terrorist in the act of setting off a shoe bomb, when I realize I'm the one who has caused her to shriek with what sounds like genuine excitement.

"Hi, Mac!"

She says my name with such familiarity that I look at her for a long moment. Then, embarrassed that I don't recognize her, I ask, "Do I know you?"