Candace Kita Quotes

I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue.

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

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

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 started modeling, I didn't know anything about fashion, but I'd watched the Victoria's Secret show.

Modeling is fun, but unless it's runway, it's just not my thing.

When I came out of school I didn't even think that modeling was a job.

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

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

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

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

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

When I was little, I always wanted to be a model.

I never thought I would model for more than a few years.

I was in middle school at a bat mitzvah, and a fashion photographer, Suzy Gorman, came up to me and asked me if I considered being a model. I did a shoot with her, and than I signed with an agency in Saint Louis.

I just fell into modeling.

I was one of the first print models to go on the runway because I wanted to do runway. When I started doing the shows, I was the only print girl there.

To me, it's a little odd to ever think 'model into actor.' I modeled once. I was about as far from a decent model as you can possibly be. I did not enjoy the world at all. I fell in my stilettos quite a bit.

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

Back in the day I was doing runway, editorial, advertising, spokesmodeling, and public appearances. Those are five different categories.

I modeled for 4 years before I felt like I had my big break.

It all started when I went to this model search in Charlotte when I was 18. That's when I met all these agents and realized I could do it, and I won! I met a photographer at the competition who persuaded me to sign with a different agency than the one that was offered to me. So, I started with a small agency and eventually moved up to IMG.

I'd never planned on being a model.

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.

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.