Carly Chaikin Quotes

My guilty pleasure is 'Britain's Next Top Model'.

The reality show 'America's Next Top Model' is my girlie pleasure.

I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people are like, 'You need to get a life!'

I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'

I wanted to model when I was younger.

I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan.

When I was 17, I entered a modeling contest in my home province in China because my mother wanted me to learn better posture. And the rest is history!

People think fashion shows take hours - it's 15 minutes. You walk in, do red carpet, take the pictures, you sit down... and then it's over.

My sister Gloria asked me to try modeling.

I was 19 or 20 when I won Miss India and then did some exciting work in fashion.

Modeling isn't all that tough.

Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.

I love, love, love fashion so much. That's why I became a model in the first place.

I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months later, I was one of the fifteen finalists in an international contest.

I'd never planned on being a model.

It's every girl's dream to be a cover girl!

I love being photographed, I love the ramp.

On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!'

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.

When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion - I used to love, love, love modeling.

My big break was when I won 'Search for a Supermodel Australia,' and then I came second in the world series, and that was all good, but I was just having fun; it wasn't real to me.

I have been a big fan of Coco Rocha's for many, many years. I have seen her walk in runway shows, pose like no other in photo shoots, and naturally follow her every move on Twitter and Instagram.

I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television.

If you're a model, you're supposed to know how to walk, aren't you?

If you're a model, you're paid to be a muse.