Melania Trump Quotes

Modeling chose me, I didn't choose modeling.

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

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

I always wanted to be a model, never an actress. I would see children in ads and stuff and wanted to be like them.

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

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

I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English.

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

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 did a lot of modeling in the U.K. A lot of it wasn't high fashion because I don't have the body or the face for high fashion modeling. I did a lot of sportswear, swimwear, and beachwear.

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

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!

I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I’d be happy.

Modeling was never a passion of mine.

It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

I want to do other things like more fashion campaigns.

Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with Richard Avedon, that's not very far from acting. Besides the fact that you don't have a partner to react to, the body language is the same.

In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York three days a week to do travelogue work.

I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that stage.

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

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

My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.

I wanted to become a model since I was a kid.

I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.