Elsa Hosk Quotes

I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.

I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage.

I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.

There was a modeling agency in my little town where I got my start, but the opportunity came to work in Japan when I was fourteen. My mom went with me until I was seventeen. Her only stipulation was that I had to keep my schoolwork up. My mom was great. She is still my best friend.

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day of my childhood without music.

Growing up, my dad and my mom were there for my sister and I.

I did a bit of baby modeling. I loved it.

I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.

There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren't famous. There weren't a lot that were really known as models that became actresses, but there are hordes of them that did modelling before such as Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Geena Davis. There are loads of 'em.

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

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

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

When I was young, I didn't like going to school, but I loved my dad. He was my professor.

I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

Growing up, my friends played soccer or did gymnastics after school; I went on auditions with my mom.

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

Some of my first memories are waiting for my father to finish his day at work in the University of Washington library and come out and jump in the car with my mom and myself, and we'd be sitting there reading books, and then we'd go home.

Being older, I can't imagine a parent not wanting to be in their kid's life. I will just never understand it. To me, it's priceless.