Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
Im quite competitive. Not with other models but with myself. I have to win.
I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.
You have to have a business model you believe in and like.
You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy
There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids.
From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.
With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
Models should just be beautiful women who inspire others. They won't be starving themselves because they are being accepted for themselves. Any thinner than today's ideals would be impossible. Any thinner means dead.
The only model to follow is pure Islam.
I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models. . . airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.
Models walking down the street are very rarely recognized as such. It is often the same as it was for me: models were the school freaks. Way too thin and their eyes way too far apart. They were not the ideal. But then they put on fantastic clothes, have their make up done and you have this special beauty. It's a creation.
Every kid comes to a point in his life, where you listen to your Dad, but then you go into the street and you start listening to the views of other people. You're looking for role models. It's like that moment when you step out.
Models never say, "I'm hot. " They say, "Look at these clothes. " Whereas, with comedy, you have to say, "I'm hot. "
If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.
I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models.
Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.
I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.