Model Stereotype Quotes

When I started my first blog years ago, I just wanted to share my perspective. For a long time, models had been these mute pretty faces - and I wanted to have a voice.

Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that.

I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.

People can't stand the fact that, yes, we were models, but now we can kick anyone's butt in the ring.

People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done it. You will always be dealing with it. You're an actor who used to be a model who never trained; there are not many directors queuing up.

I'm not one of these new supermodel girls on Instagram in bikinis. I'm different, but that's okay.

I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model.

My eyes will never be blue; my bone structure will never allow for you to mistake me for a Scandinavian model.

I never considered myself a supermodel or anything like that. I mean, I don't think I'm ugly. I have good days and bad days, and I like when I'm fit and lean and all of those things that any woman likes, but it's not the eye of the hurricane for me.

It's ironic to watch a dress on a mannequin or a model on a catwalk who's not anything like the person that's going to buy it.

I'm not the typical dress size - being a model just isn't how I think of myself.

It's hard sometimes because people don't take a model seriously in any sense. Unless she's taking a photo, that's as good as she is.

I think people have a different image of me because, you know, they portray me with the idea that models are stupid and dumb; like, 'She can just be a model because she can just be a model - she's dumb and she can't do anything else.'

I hate when people say models don't have personalities; what does that even mean? Everyone has a personality.

I'm a real model because I'm imperfect.

I wasn't a model that loved food. I was someone that loved food that started modeling.

People think, 'She's a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.' But I'm normal. I cry. I'm not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.

People think if you're a model then you must take yourself way too seriously.

I'm really not that weird. I'm a combination of a lot of different things. Maybe it's just easier to make me look weird than another model who is specifically Caucasian.

I've been doing my job for a long time and I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that. I just never really took it seriously.

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

Since I'm not a fashion model, there's a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don't regard myself as an ugly person, but I don't think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I'm somebody who might be, I'd like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.

I'm a model, but I love to eat.

If I looked like a Victoria's Secret model, I would still get nasty comments.