Natalia Vodianova Quotes

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.

Well, I'm clearly not ugly.

It kind of cracks me up when people say I'm hot because I just think that that's a term that I don't have to deal with anymore.

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

There are days when I feel confident, and I feel like, 'OK, this outfit looks nice, I look good, I'm in shape.' But I'm never going to walk out the house trying to be sexy, because that to me is cheesy and not attractive.

As long as you feel confident, you're going to look beautiful. You don't need to be a stick figure to be beautiful.

My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

To go from hating the way I looked to being a 'Cosmo' centerfold is a profound honor.

Growing up, I was quite self-conscious about getting too tall, but then I realized, 'You know what? I can use it to my advantage. Big is beautiful.'

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

I'm not saying I look at those pictures all the time and think, 'Wow, I was hot.' Just, you know, I think everybody deserves to be objectified at least once in their life.

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.

I'm sexy literally and I know it. I'm sexy because I know it.

God, I don't think of myself as gorgeous at all!

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves.

I'm not cute.

I'm trying to change how women think about themselves.

People told me that I was the best-looking girl in my college. But it was only after I won a beauty pageant in 2002 that I became confident.

Confidence literally starts from yourself. You have to go look in the mirror at yourself. If you don't like what you see, you're going to give off that energy.

When I was launched in 2010, people told me that I wasn't the best looking guy, so I would have to act really well. I am aware that I am not conventionally good looking. I have heard it so many times that I have started believing it.

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.