Kaia Gerber Quotes

I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'

Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me always to attain. I am not a machine. I am a human being.

There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.

I've never pretended to be a supermodel.

Sometimes when I flick through a magazine and see these thin models I'm left wondering what effect they can have on an insecure person. But I say to girls: forget what you see in the magazines, that is a world which has nothing to do with reality; think of it as a cartoon.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.

We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.

The blessing of having your first project be something as fantastic as 'Girls' is that it gave me room to be selective because I didn't feel pressure to do other things. The curse is that my standards were really high.

Perfection, to me, means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.

My dad was very critical and had very high expectations without a lot of the details filled in. It was, 'I expect you to achieve greatness in grades, in athletics, in whatever you do.'

I'm tired of seeing perfect people on TV.