Words matter. These are the best Chanel Iman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A good night’s sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.
Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.
At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I’m not satisfied with how I look on the runway.
It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn’t happen overnight.
I’m really into natural and organic products.
We always had ‘Vogue’ in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in ‘Vogue.’
I don’t get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out.
The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.
Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.
Don’t be afraid to express yourself through fashion!
I’m my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.
Mostly I’m proud to be an African-American woman, but I’m glad I have a universal look as well.
I drink a lot of protein shakes and do a lot of weight lifting.
I don’t want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.
I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!
I don’t like to fly. What’s it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs… I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.
My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.
I’m grateful to look the way I do. However, if I could change anything, I would like to be a bit bigger all over. Not much – just a bit.
When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion – I used to love, love, love modeling.
I’m just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I’m eating, I’m eating, I’m eating and then I just… sit. And I don’t gain a thing.
Honestly, I try to forget Fashion Week once it’s over. I just want to go home and rest and just forget I even did it. It could drive you crazy! It’s just show after show after show, and you’re missing your family and they feel really far away. You don’t go to sleep. You work for a month.
My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it’s always been a dream of hers.
Accept yourself, love yourself.
I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.
I’m thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.
