Editorial Modeling Quotes

I'm 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first week of second semester was during Fashion Week when my first editorials in 'CR Fashion Book' and 'Sports Illustrated' came out. It was crazy!

I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.

Grace Kelly was a very commercial model; she had no interest in being a fashion model. None at all.

[There is] a breed of fashion models

I was more of a commercial model. I wasn't into ramp walks or photo shoots.

Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

Modeling is fun, but unless it's runway, it's just not my thing.

I don't do 'Image' magazine or high-fashion shows.

Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with Richard Avedon, that's not very far from acting. Besides the fact that you don't have a partner to react to, the body language is the same.