Natalia Vodianova Quotes

I can't imagine being on one of those shows where people have to look nice.

I know some women are intimidated by makeup.

I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.

I was lucky not to have been born pretty.

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.

Girls in my school were always prettier.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

When I dress in a certain way and do my hair and makeup in a certain way, it's not to get attention.

So many girls only care about guys and looking good all the time.

Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

There's no way I could look like this without them.

It's fine being stared at as a pretty girl, but not as a freak. When I tried to make myself ugly, they said, 'Oh, she's lost her looks.'

I don't want to say that women who do use makeup or get breast implants or have fake nails are insecure. They're entitled to that, and they should do that if that's what they want to do. But for me, there are no answers. It's just a matter of preference and choice and fetish.

There's a lot of amazing women out there. There's a lot of hot models. But models are the worst, because they're models, you have to always step up and always look good.

When it comes to having conversations with girls what I hear from them is that there is a lot of pressure to look a certain way, act a certain way, perform a certain way, and there are very mixed messages. We are telling them, 'Be yourself, be true to who you are,' but what does that mean in a society of comparison, competition, and individualism?

It's really, really tough being a woman. I think about getting work done all the time. Look at Nicole Kidman - her face is completely done.

I'd wear nice clothes and brush my teeth more often if I cared about what people thought.

I used to go onstage with no makeup on. And then I realised I was looking a little crazy and I had to grow up a bit and look more presentable as a woman.

Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way.