Meagan Tandy Quotes

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 was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I don't do 'Image' magazine or high-fashion shows.

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.

Grace Kelly was a very commercial model; she had no interest in being a fashion model. None at all.

I always promised myself that I wouldn't do catwalk shows until the day I died.

I became obsessed watching fashion TV shows when I was a teenager and recognized that I had the height and body frame. I especially became hooked when I saw on 'E! True Hollywood Story' how much a model can make and how I can achieve a better living for my family and me.

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.

I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.

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

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

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 really like walking for brands where I like the clothes, because it's a big part of the whole thing.

I was more of a commercial model. I wasn't into ramp walks or photo shoots.

I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.

Nick Knight was my first big gig as a 'real' model. Prior to and during 'ANTM,' I never actually called myself a model because I always viewed it as a hobby.

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