Andrej Pejic Quotes

I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.

I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.

It took me a while to accept that I'm not going to have the curves other girls get.

I have always been too round to do fashion shows.

Of course, I always loved fashion - and I was always the tallest one and the skinniest one, so that helped.

When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because you're constantly surrounded by people saying, 'Oh, she's too short, she's too skinny, she's this, she's whatever.' And you're right there. They're talking about you, and you're right there.

I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

I look like a gorilla, just the way I'm built.

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

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

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 try not to worry about my appearance as much as possible.

I did a little modeling in Minnesota, but because I was a heavier 'model,' I didn't pursue it much when I lived there.

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.

But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.

I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

Sometimes I see myself in the mirror, and it's 'Oh, God!' But the minute you stick out your butt a little bit and suck it in, you go from a 6 to a 10.

I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

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

I feel I'm such a big part of that insecurity that some girls might have because of my job, that girls think they have to be that picture. And even boys, they think that that picture exists, and it's so frustrating because I don't look like that picture - I wake up not looking like that picture.

I am proportional, and I'm very lucky for that.

When I modeled, my name always came with a preface: 'the voluptuous Sophie Dahl.' I was the anti-waif, as round as a Rubens.

I began working as a model because I was born thin. I didn't become thin to be a model.

I'm certainly not a supermodel.