Liya Kebede Quotes

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.

Modeling is fun, but unless it's runway, it's just not my thing.

When I modeled, I lived in Europe and worked all the time. I did runway, and that's all I did.

On 'America's Next Top Model,' I mentor girls on television. When that TV goes off, I actually mentor other girls in the modeling industry - girls that have not been on 'Top Model,' but who appear in 'Vogue' worldwide.

I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.

I don't do 'Image' magazine or high-fashion shows.

Throughout the years I've been working as a model, I've gathered lots of information on the process of creating fashion without even trying.

I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.

Modeling is where my career started, and it's not something that I think I'm ever going to fully say goodbye to.

I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

I want to continue modeling and do the best that I can with that.

I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want.

I became obsessed watching fashion TV shows when I was a teenager and recognized that I had the height and body frame. I especially became hooked when I saw on 'E! True Hollywood Story' how much a model can make and how I can achieve a better living for my family and me.

I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

And I only do what I do in life, which is model.

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

Modeling is always something I've really admired because I've seen my mum and sister do it.

I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.

No, I always hated modeling. I developed an early hatred of modeling just from having to do it; having won Miss Teenage Memphis, I had to model, and I hated it. It bored me.

Modeling was something I wanted to try from a really young age.

Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.

I've done modeling since I was 18, but it didn't take off until I moved to Los Angeles. Modeling has always been something I've been really good at, and has been something that's helped pay bills.

My son doesn't really want to model as a career, so I am not worried about him entering into the industry.