Meredith Ostrom Quotes

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!

I don't think modelling is a career I'm going to pursue.

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

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

I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want.

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

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.

If someone has the opportunity to become a model, I would say, 'Do it.'

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

My big break was when I won 'Search for a Supermodel Australia,' and then I came second in the world series, and that was all good, but I was just having fun; it wasn't real to me.

Every single model wants to be in 'Sports Illustrated,' and I feel extremely blessed to have that opportunity.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.

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

There wasn't really one time in my life where I was like, 'I want to be a model!'

I am a 100 percent determined to be a Victoria's Secret model.

My second choice would've been Carolina. And when I told my mother I was going to Duke and not Carolina, she just cried, and that made my decision process a little harder. But I still went with what felt right, and it ended up working out well for me.

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

I want to be the next Gisele Bundchen . Everything she does, who she is, what she's done, she's just amazing.

Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.

Modeling was another job like some of the other ones I had. Working as a cashier, I delivered newspapers, I worked in a retirement home feeding elderly people. . . so I never stopped and thought about, boy, I'm a successful model.

Modeling chose me, I didn't choose modeling.

Lots of girls will work for five years before Mario Testino will use them, and I was not prepared to slog around doing that.

I worked for dad on the grounds and I was in high school and I said I wanted to go to college, and he said, well, you figure it out. He said I will pay for your college but you're going to go to St. Vincent. St. Vincent College right here. That's about as much as I can afford, you work here, right here at home. I said, what if I can get somewhere else? And he said if I can get there, that's your call.

Models-turned-actors are a bit of a cliché... It is a huge cliché but you have to look at the positive aspects. I learned a lot about the world and took a lot of knowledge away from it.