Tyra Banks Quotes

I love Kate Moss. I've worked with her a couple of times, and she is a great girl, really funny and easy to work with.

I think modeling is interesting because every season, what the modeling world finds beautiful changes. Like Kate Moss, she was 5'6" and was so thin and had no curves, and that was in for a while.

Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.

I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

I can remember years ago, when Kate Moss first came around and there were so many articles. Everyone was saying that it was heroin chic - that she was a waif, that she was anorexic. But Kate would eat just as much as anybody I knew - the media had just turned her into this thing. It must be really, really hard when you're the object of that.

I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.

If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.

It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.

There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon.

And anyway, modeling wasn't for me. I'm too short. I've got a big butt. It wasn't going to happen.

I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.

If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity.

I really don't think I ever thought I could be a model. I was shorter than all of the models around and certainly rounder than anybody that I had ever seen in a magazine.

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.

I'm the male Kate Moss.

I don't really see myself as a big supermodel.

I wish I could be a model, and then I could have this fantastic body and parade around and get paid for it.

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible.

I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.

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

I don't think there's anyone who can be unaware of the relevance of Kate Moss, the effect that she's had on the fashion industry.

I was always looking up to supermodels. They were, like, my superheroes.

I grew up looking up a lot to '90s supermodels like Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell. I just thought those women were such cool role models because they had a good body ideal, too.

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

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