Kathy Ireland Quotes

I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.

I think objectifying women is not wrong if only her beauty is captured in an aesthetic manner.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.

I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.

Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their 'me time' must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror.

Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

I am not a sex symbol.

If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!

I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.

I still describe myself as the activist with cleavage. Breast implants made me feel a lot sexier.

Listen, 'real' women are the reason the fashion industry exists.

People want you to be beautiful and shut up. When I paint or play music, they'd rather not know about that.

When I'm a gender capitalist in the fashion world, I basically can go to any casting that I want to as long as somebody likes my face.

I think women are very attractive.

The way woman is defined by marketable modeling and commercial standards... It makes me feel alien to myself.

On the ground, I am a professional cricketer - I don't need to wear lipstick. If I want to look good, I know when to wear make-up. I do not accept it being put on my face when I am wearing the India kit.

I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.

Just because we wear hair extensions and make-up doesn't mean we're the punchline for every joke.