Daisy Fuentes Quotes

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.

Not every model wants to be an actress.

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

I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.

I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I came to L.A., I became a professional model. It sounds kind of crazy, but in L.A. was when I was able to start making a living from modeling.

I always knew I wanted to be in television when I was a kid, and I knew I wanted to model.

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

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.

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

At 16 years old, I was signed to my very first modeling agency. That was my first real introduction to the entertainment industry. It really opened my eyes to a world that was available to me.

After graduating, I began auditioning for films while continuing to model. I did a few fashion shows, ad shoots, and even got a few Bollywood offers, but nothing great.

I guess you can be a supermodel today just by building followers. You don't necessarily have to do the work of going to Milan and then to Paris or New York, trying to find the right photographer, artist, or designer to see you.

I don't know why modeling worked for me, because I'm short. But I liked it because it let me buy my own furniture.

I went to a local modeling school when I was about 10 and learned to walk the runway.

When I was little, I never wanted to be a model or really thought of doing this job. I'm from a small city, Yongzhou Hunan in the south of China - not a big place for fashion.

I went to a modeling agency and said I wanted to be a model. I worked, worked, worked so much while I was studying.

It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn't looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set. And that was that.

When I was a kid, probably 16 or 17, I got spotted by a model scout that wanted to represent me, and they sent me one modeling job, for Wall's ice cream. I did one job for them, and then a catwalk shoot for Kangol caps, and decided modeling was not for me.

When I first started modeling, they used to bleach my eyebrows all the time.

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've been told I'd make a great parts model.

I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.

I see girls that I know - I absolutely know - will be star models within just a matter of weeks, and they always are.

One of my careers just before ring announcing was that I worked as a model.