Quotes About Modeling

I've been lucky enough to have been given a platform through modeling, so now I can use it as an activist.

I'm an ambassador for World of Children and St Jude's, it always been very important for me to use modeling as a platform to give back or raise awareness for causes that are important.

There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.

There are plenty of models who have children.

I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed my own advice, it really was life-altering when I found writers who wrote long stories, full of back story and side plots and sub-histories.

I really don't think we should label models as 'plus' or 'runway.'

Casting plus size girls needs to be genuine.

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

I did a school fashion show, and I got scouted there, but I wasn't very interested in modeling at that point.

And then modelling, because it pays you really well and you get to travel, I was forced to get used to the idea of standing in front of a camera and having six or seven people watching me and that actually allowed me to loosen up from an acting point of view.

At first, I was scared that if I claimed I modeled, people would be like, 'What?'

I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.

When I have a really big shoot, I start thinking about the calories and how much I'm eating compared to how much I'm working out.

I am not my skin. I am a model with a skin condition.

When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because you're constantly surrounded by people saying, 'Oh, she's too short, she's too skinny, she's this, she's whatever.' And you're right there. They're talking about you, and you're right there.

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

When I was a model at 15, I was eating one red pepper a day, and if I had a big day of castings, I would survive off a bag of Haribo, which gave me the 500 calories a day that would keep me alive. I was congratulated daily on my appearance - the more vertebrae upon my back you could count, the better my auditions went.

I started event managing as my first career which I started in 1989, and that was the first year when I started modelling as well, so every time I start something new it is because of an interest that I have and then that interest becomes sustainable and doable.

Peter Lindbergh is the most charming man - I did a Gap commercial for him, and he was just so sweet.

I would find myself in these photo shoots with models and makeup, and I got swept up in it all.

I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.

I want to model and I want to do whatever it takes to be a 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit model.

I gave birth to my first son in April 1986. I thought it would be a good goal to get back in shape after having a baby if I ran the New York City Marathon. I ran in it November 1986. I had just shot the 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit issue, so I was in great shape.

I usually work out around six times a week, but if I have the 'Swimsuit' issue, I'll work out seven times a week.