Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have been famous since they were 9 months old. But what do they think about celebrity? "It's weird to be called a celebrity," MK tells Elle for their July issue. "I mean, if I see a paparazzi shot of me walking that's in a magazine or something at some event, it's as if I see it from an outsider's point of view. There's like a character, almost, and then there's me. I think it's kind of entertaining."

On her sister:
"We don't agree all the time. The way we go about business or designing or making a decision is that we come at it from two completely different angles that, at the end of the day -- even when we don't think we're agreeing with each other -- we are agreeing. We're just getting there in different ways. Unless you're a twin, you honestly can't know how close twins can be. When there's that much love there's...well, there's the opposite of everything, but it stems from love, and it stems from passion. We're driven people. I do know I can't work in an office. Ashley, on the other hand, loves going to an office."

On her and Ashley's fortune:
"It's nobody's business if I am or I'm not [rich]. I mean, if you want to have a discussion about fame and what does it really mean to be famous these days, what's celebrity anymore? What's media? That's different. I have a completely different point of view about all this because I was never thrown into it. I grew up in it. It wasn't something that I aspired to. It's just something I knew. For me, I just worked. I had a job. I've had a job for 21 years."

On her style:
"You're either on the worst dressed list or you've started a fashion trend. I think there's a real disconnect between the media's perception of fashion and the fashion world's idea of fashion. I don't know why I wear some of the things I wear. I like wearing crazy things sometimes. I like being playful. Sometimes I feel like I'm playing dress-up and becoming character. It's sort of like an art. It can change your mood or the way that people are attracted to you."

On therapy:
"Yeah, I talk with people. I think it's important. I wouldn't call 'em a shrink, but it's good to have communication with whomever, whether it's a mentor or a therapist or a psychiatrist, whether it's your mom or your dad or your best friend. I think at some point I had to say that I deserve to be happy. As Diane [von Furstenberg] would say, 'It was okay to love myself and be my best friend.' I think everyone deserves that."