A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
Michael Bergin

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.
Michael Bergin

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.
Michael Bergin

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
Michael Bergin

I didn't know a damn thing about style.
Michael Bergin

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.
Michael Bergin

I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.
Michael Bergin

I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.
Michael Bergin

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.
Michael Bergin

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.
Michael Bergin


I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
Michael Bergin

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
Michael Bergin

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.
Michael Bergin

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.
Michael Bergin

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.
Michael Bergin

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
Michael Bergin

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.
Michael Bergin

New York is tough on lonely people.
Michael Bergin

Thank God for little miracles, right?
Michael Bergin

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.
Michael Bergin