Quotes from Andreja Pejic

I usually wake up around 9, and the first thing I do is make myself a cup of tea. I drink a lot of tea - green tea, white tea, and all kinds of herbal teas.

I was prom queen, and the year before, I was prom king. It was kind of the same; you just got a differently shaped crown.

I find myself to be quite sarcastic, and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't get that.

Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women's rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.

Gender dysphoria is never an easy thing to live with, mainly because people don't understand it.

When I was little, the idea of waking up as a girl was like a fairytale. I had this idea that I'd meet a witch who would transform me. From the moment I found out that it was actually possible, I went to bed each night feeling that when it happens, it will be the best day of my life. And it was!

When I was 12, I thought I wanted to be a witch.

As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

My dream was, start young, take hormones, live as a woman, try and become as passable as possible, bury your past, change your friends. Now I've realised that I don't have to be ashamed of my past.

Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting.

With fashion, it's all about timing and holding out for the right thing.

I think a life of a human being is not something you can explain in a few interview questions. The stuff you do in the media is sometimes a great reflection and sometimes not a great reflection of who you are as a person.

I don't believe that the fight for trans rights or African American rights is different from the fight against war, or the fight for refugees.

Perhaps if I was in a different profession, I wouldn't have worn 'trans' on my forehead. But there's a difference between not wanting to make a big deal out of something and fearing the effect it will have on my life.

In the beginning, I was worried there are too many shots of me as a boy out there. Now I'm at a point where I know my past doesn't make me any less of a woman today. I can be proud of it. I don't have to bury it.

I identify as a woman first, but I am also proudly trans.

On a personal level, my mom is my biggest inspiration. She's always been an idol for me. I used to dream about growing up and being like her.

My mum would say sometimes, 'Do you think you might be gay?' But it wasn't that. When I imagined myself in a romantic setting, it was heterosexual, but I was just always a girl.

I am 6 foot 2 inches, and one of the benefits of that is having long legs.

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself.

Other women don't go around saying, 'Wow, I'm female.' They have room in their lives for other things. That's my goal. One day, I would like to be just another girl.

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

I remember as a kid, my mom had to trade canned food to buy my brother and me chocolate because we were living in Serbia at the time, and there were sanctions. If I catch myself complaining about going to a red carpet event, I say, 'Shut up.'

Sometimes I've seen comments about my knees or about my jawline, or people write things like, 'She still has signs of being a boy,' and then I realized that these are beautiful features. I've grown to love them.