Quotes from Cameron Russell

When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.

The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I became the recipient of a legacy.

If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet.

I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.

In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.

I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.

Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.

A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.

My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

I am insecure... because I have to think about what I look like every day.

Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.

In 2007, a very inspired New York University Ph.D. student counted all the models on the runway, every single one that was hired, and of the 677 models that were hired, only 27, or less than four per cent, were non-white.

My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.

Like many young people, I believe I have potential to make a positive impact in the world.

If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.

[Models] have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes, and they're the most physically insecure women probably on the planet.

Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's out of your control and it's awesome — and it's not a career path.

I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!

Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.