Jacquelyn Jablonski Quotes

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 always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign!

One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!

My name can't be that tough to pronounce!

Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.

I love Simone Rocha. I just think she's really clever.

I would love to work with Karlie Kloss and model for Chanel. And I would love to be in a music video with Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift, my two favorite artists.

I was like, 'What's Margiela?' back then.

Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.

I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino.

I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.

Prada is such a huge company, and it was an honour to work with them and so early on in my career.

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.

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

Even when well translated. can we really understand what other cultures are talking about?

I would love to one day have my own line of clothes.

Luckily, one of the perks of being an Angel is that I don't have to go to casting. It's so nerve-wracking - even the girls who have been in the show year after year still get nervous. The show is seen around the world, so it's a huge honor to be selected.

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment?

Americans have a wonderful way of just butchering everyone's names.

My very first runway show, I was in 'Vogue.'

Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.

No one can understand my accent!

I know I have one of the best jobs in the world. These days, models are allowed to have bigger personalities and be celebrities on their own.

If I do something, I want to be the best. And one of the best things you can be is a Victoria's Secret Angel; for me, that's always been a goal.

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