Quotes from Andreja Pejic

When I'm nervous, I can't eat or sleep.

It used to be so important to choose what you were. Gay or straight. Male or female. I think the new generation is more fluid.

Love has no boundaries.

The best songs/films/collections expose truths about life and make them universally accessible; they progress humanity.

Stepping outside of my personal bubble, or that of fashion or beauty, is pretty important to me.

It's good to be noticed.

I didn't know if I could have a career in fashion; I didn't fit in an obvious box.

The beauty of my journey is that it's always been pretty unpredictable, so stay tuned.

The fact that my body is presented as an unrealistic ideal of 'beauty' to the world doesn't stop me - or most other models - from feeling unsure about ourselves.

I love Amanda Lear, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone.

I love costume jewelry, the stuff Givenchy/Riccardo Tisci do, and old school rock n' roll jewelry, too.

I've definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I'm sure most girls have.

To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.

Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.

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. Just not overweight.

If I wasn't modeling, I'd be studying economics or international politics.

Ever since Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. election, I've been trying to expand my scope to understand the thought processes of people who don't see the world, or humanity, as I do.

Weirdly enough, I'm a macroeconomics enthusiast.

I usually go with the 'less is more' approach.

I was born a girl; it just took me a little while to become one fully.