As a person, I am someone who wants to give my the best in every take. I wouldn’t say it was easy for me to get into the industry because I come from a background where no one has been in films. But I do believe if you work hard, you will get noticed. Modeling gave me that courage to stand in front of the camera.
I suddenly got magazine covers, TV commercials and advertising campaigns. Finally after two years I could show my mum and dad that modeling was lucrative.
I started modeling and after a while the photographer Bruce Weber introduced me to Joel Schumacher, who cast me in my first film, and I just fell in love.
All the time, you’re going into your modeling agency and they’re taking Polaroids of you in a bathing suit. It was not something that was wonderful for me. It offered a lot of really great opportunities for me. But ultimately, it’s a hard job because it’s based solely on what your body looks like, what you look like.
If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn’t be a supermodel because it’s all about celebrity.
With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want… with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
After I went on ‘Drag Race,’ I was allowed to do so many things. I was allowed to do theater, commercial work, television work, modeling, fashion design, and it was great. But the thing with reality television fame is that it’s got a pretty quick expiration date.
Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that’s because we’re more valuable objects and ornaments.
Modeling is a lonely business… You don’t speak. You don’t really portray anything but an image… the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.
I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself, really, ever. I still have trouble calling myself a model. I just never thought I was tall enough or skinny enough.
I rarely got retouched when I started modeling, and it was crucial to me to show an accurate, realistic picture of me because that’s beautiful, too.
Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.
I was first spotted for a modeling career and there’s no talking involved in that – the thought of doing any sort of public speaking at that time would have terrified me. So that was something I sort of had to learn.
Well, I already had some influence through social media, so modeling is a way to boost that to a higher level.
Modeling is not a passion of mine. I have been having fun with it, but it’s just to pay the bills.
It didn’t take me very long to realize that modeling wasn’t very satisfying. I was always asking people, ‘How are you going to set up this shot? How will it be lit?’ And they’d say, ‘Stop. Just pose.’ I had a problem with that.
It was only when I began modeling at 18 that I really began enjoying fashion and reading any fashion magazine I could get my hands on, and developing a profound respect for designers, fashion and how to wear it.
Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
My siblings would tease me and call me big friendly or freaky giant, and later, when I was approached about modeling, they would joke, ‘The BFG is gonna be a model? That clunky thing?’ They know how to keep me in check all right.
I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I’d do to pay my way through college.
When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!
Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.
Modeling isn’t all that tough.
People think modeling’s mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn’t have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing or sitting.
I started with the modeling.
When I was crowned the college queen, I got a lot of modeling offers and I did a fair amount of work in Delhi.
Before getting into movies, I decided to get modeling or acting assignments in Delhi.
I started modeling quite young. I would really recommend to every girl not to start modeling until they turn 17, to be honest. Before that, I think you’re not mature enough.
At 15, I was modeling. I had to do my own hair and makeup. I also made my own clothes because I grew up in South Africa, where fashion was six months behind because of the seasons.
I wouldn’t have taken up modeling as a profession. It was more of a hobby.
I’ve always felt like I have a lot to say, and I wasn’t communicating that through modeling.
My modeling career was really just a long accident – one that happened to coincide with my chocolate-cake phase.
I don’t have a background in design, so I think it’s always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I’m going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.
I think I’ve done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it’s weird: I’m thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don’t obsess about it.
I’ve only done one shoot where it’s modeling clothes, not like me in my environment. And the stylist, literally, I had her stand behind the photographer and do poses.
I was the first model to get a blog and talk about anything in modeling.
I have my family, which is my main thing; the organization; a modeling career. All these things are important, but family definitely comes first.
When I was modeling, I’d go for castings in a pair of really tight, leopard-print trousers, like jeans, but with a velvet finish – very Rod Stewart, but also very sexy.
I started modeling when I was about 2 or 3 years old; I started with Baby Guess, and I did Guess Kids, and that was the extent of my modeling career as a kid. I took all of my elementary, middle and high school years off to focus on school and sports.
What I want to do is encourage more of that, more deaf presence in TV, movies, acting, modeling – that’s really what I want to work toward.
I’ve always known that my purpose is to help as many people as possible, and with modeling I feel like it’s an awesome way to show girls you don’t have to look any particular way.
I thought to myself, What should I do for a living so that I can keep feeding myself? And I thought, Oh, I’m tall, so why not give modeling a try?
I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.
I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5′ 8, I was shorter than most girls in the business. Still, I gave it a shot, and like with most things in my life, I never gave up.
I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.
I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it’s just another job.
Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn’t particularly enjoy the act of it.
My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.
I just wear very nice pyjamas. When I’m at home, I love to watch movies and relax because when I’m modeling, I’m always travelling. When I’m not working I don’t put much make up, but I do love nail polish for that little bit of fun colour.
I’m not ready to decide if modeling is what I want to do with my life.
I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light – as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that’s a massive contribution.
I’m not going to sit here and say, ‘Pity me; I came from modeling.’ It’s opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they’ve heard the name before. That’s an advantage that I have.
Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, ‘Oh, I look like a woman.’ And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, ’cause I loved it.
The Hollywood lifestyle was just overwhelming. A party here, an interview there, magazine and modeling shoots daily, your face everywhere and girls throwing themselves at you. As great as it felt at the time, I still felt something missing, and that I needed to change.
The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.
My mom was one of the moms who was like, ‘You are so handsome why aren’t you modeling? I am handsome, but model… let’s not get crazy.
Augmented reality will drive all things like chat, social networking, photos, videos, organizing data, modeling, painting, motion capture, and visual programming. Every form of computing will be combined together and unified in a single platform.
I never took modeling seriously because I was so busy with cheerleading.
