An agent once told Sharon Stone she wanted to throw her 'down the flight of stairs'

• In her new memoir, Sharon Stone recalled traveling to New Jersey as an aspiring model with her mom.
• Stone wrote that agent Eileen Ford wanted to "bounce the fat off" her by throwing her down stairs.
• Stone would later sign with Ford, who was the cofounder of Ford Models.

In Sharon Stone's new memoir, "The Beauty of Living Twice," the Oscar-nominated actress recounts how she landed her first agent as a model.

In the book, Stone writes that she always wanted to work in the film industry, but it wasn't until her mother saw model-agency executive Eileen Ford, cofounder of Ford Models, on "The Merv Griffin Show" that modeling seemed like a "real job" to her.

Stone and her mother then travelled to New Jersey, where Ford's agency was located, and looked up the address in the yellow pages.

"We took the bus to the city and went over there - for two hicks it was rather amazing that we even found the place and saw Eileen," Stone recalled.

Ford then made a pretty memorable first impression when the agency executive told Stone, a then-aspiring model, that "she would like to throw me down the flight of stairs I had just come up and bounce the fat off of my ass."

Despite this, Ford, who died in 2014, said that she wanted to sign Stone. However, Stone and her mother decided to see some other agents first, including Wilhelmina Cooper at her eponymous agency.

"[Cooper] was incredibly generous and explained why Eileen wanted me and why she wanted the country-girl fat off," Stone wrote.

Stone wrote that Cooper treated her with "so much kindness" and "dignity" and gave her great advice. It was this advice that led Stone to sign with Ford's agency and move in with one of her agents.

Stone would later achieve her dream of working in the film industry, starring in movies such as "Total Recall" and "Basic Instinct" before earning an Oscar nomination for Martin Scorsese's "Casino."

In "The Beauty of Living Twice," which is out now, Stone recounts her time in the film industry with some shocking revelations, including her treatment at the hands of movie producers and "Basic Instinct" director Paul Verhoeven.