Joan Smalls Quotes

We need to work together to redefine the global image of beauty and continue to push for a more inclusive world.

What I think is exciting is that, to a certain extent, there is a revolution happening where black women are owning their own beauty, despite the standard of beauty that in the past has not had space for it.

In 2017, there is more than one way to be beautiful and more than one way to be cool. And when you put an image on the cover of 'Vogue,' that means something that goes beyond fashion.

It makes me very happy that people's perceptions of what's beautiful and attractive are gradually changing.

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.

Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.

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.

I'm 5'3'', and not often you get to see that in a magazine. I think that what is so cool about 'Sports Illustrated' is it's all different body shapes, all difference sizes. You have actresses, sports figures, musicians, so it's all about skin deep beauty sort of radiating to the outside, and that's what's so special.

Just because we're a bit curvier doesn't mean we don't want to look great.

The idea that I get to kind of redefine what is beautiful and whose story deserves to be told and showcase that you know, big women have love lives and complex colorful lives like everybody else, that's really important to me.

I'm constantly trying to redefine what being a beauty queen is.

It's always been a dream to be in a beauty campaign. Anything that can show girls they can look ethereal at any size.

To see another fat girl on television, I think, is really powerful. I'm happy to open the doors for a younger generation of fat, black women to be visible, to be seen, to be heard.

Beauty doesn't have to be confined to one tiny singular tiny frame and I've always really enjoyed standing up for women and representing different shapes within the industry.

So much of the mainstream media has taught us what beauty is, but everyone is beautiful.

The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever.

People are deeply interested in rewriting the established narratives and challenging what we see as the norm in every way. We want to see a new definition of beauty and sexy. We want to see different people look vulnerable and show strength and redefine what it means to be strong.

Fashion hasn't changed enough yet. There's too much a stereotype of beauty.

Part of the reason I wanted to model was to push the boundaries and challenge the perceptions of what a beautiful body is supposed to look like. Why should I feel any differently about looking good than anyone else?

'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.

One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.