Top 50 Andreja Pejic Quotes

Mum’s very proud. She finds every picture of me and has them on every wall.

Gender dysphoria is never an easy thing to live with, mainly because people don’t understand it.

There are so many male models who are working in high fashion, and they are broke. It’s good to be a woman.

I read ‘The Original Beauty Bible’ when I was 16, and it changed my life.

I was lucky to grow up in a family where your parents loved you no matter what you were or what you came out as, and a lot of kids don’t have that ride.

You can wax on so much about your figure and your skin and your face and all of those really important, and I’m all about skin and keeping it healthy, but if you don’t have confidence, none of it matters.

Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women’s rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.

It’s good to be noticed.

I came out to my mom at the age of 14. She didn’t understand it at first, but she’s been very supportive since.

We should give people the freedom to express who they are.

I was prom queen, and the year before, I was prom king. It was kind of the same; you just got a differently shaped crown.

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It’s a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

During the day, I really don’t wear much makeup.

I take biotin and silica for my hair to grow faster, but it’s good for your skin, too.

Weirdly enough, I’m a macroeconomics enthusiast.

Stepping outside of my personal bubble, or that of fashion or beauty, is pretty important to me.

I want to keep sharing my story in the hope that young trans people or just people who feel different or ostracized have something to look up to.

I think a life of a human being is not something you can explain in a few interview questions. The stuff you do in the media is sometimes a great reflection and sometimes not a great reflection of who you are as a person.

My mum would say sometimes, ‘Do you think you might be gay?’ But it wasn’t that. When I imagined myself in a romantic setting, it was heterosexual, but I was just always a girl.

My first passion is politics.

For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn’t like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn’t attractive.

I’ve definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I’m sure most girls have.

I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn’t just about money.

I didn’t know if I could have a career in fashion; I didn’t fit in an obvious box.

I definitely did look back into the past when I was a teenager for transgender icons, like a famous model called Tula in the 1970s-’80s who starred as a ‘Bond’ girl.

I struggled to find an agency in London because no one knew whether they should put me in the men’s board or the women’s board. There was a lot of uncertainty about my commercial viability.

Women are not baby machines. There’s a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting.

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky – the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

When I first went to Milan, my agent said you have to give off a strong, masculine energy. They don’t like campiness. They like boys to appear straight and to appear masculine. I quickly learned the game of it and how to navigate around it.

I would love to bring my mum to see me in shows and travel Europe with me because she has done so, so much for me.

I usually go with the ‘less is more’ approach.

I think, at the end of the day, you have to live a truthful life and be true to yourself. You have one life, and everything has to fall into place around that.

I love to work with people who are great at what they do.

I love costume jewelry, the stuff Givenchy/Riccardo Tisci do, and old school rock n’ roll jewelry, too.

I’m comfortable in my skin, and for my look to be celebrated is great.

Other women don’t go around saying, ‘Wow, I’m female.’ They have room in their lives for other things. That’s my goal. One day, I would like to be just another girl.

I don’t believe that the fight for trans rights or African American rights is different from the fight against war, or the fight for refugees.

I would go through my mother’s makeup kit, and I think she thought it was really cute. I was only three or four years old.

When I was little, the idea of waking up as a girl was like a fairytale. I had this idea that I’d meet a witch who would transform me. From the moment I found out that it was actually possible, I went to bed each night feeling that when it happens, it will be the best day of my life. And it was!

Ever since Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. election, I’ve been trying to expand my scope to understand the thought processes of people who don’t see the world, or humanity, as I do.

I was born a girl; it just took me a little while to become one fully.

When I was 12, I thought I wanted to be a witch.

Australia was a very different world and culture from the one I left in Europe. Life was much more spread out. People drove everywhere. They built higher fences. Neighbours didn’t interact so much.

It used to be so important to choose what you were. Gay or straight. Male or female. I think the new generation is more fluid.

I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom’s skirt trying to look like a ballerina.

I have a very angular face, so my makeup routine is focused around softening my features, and I’ve finally learned how to contour to my advantage.

The fact that my body is presented as an unrealistic ideal of ‘beauty’ to the world doesn’t stop me – or most other models – from feeling unsure about ourselves.

The way I need to look, it’s a very personal thing. When I started experimenting, it was to make myself feel happy, to look in the mirror and be satisfied. I never did drag or anything like that. It was always that I wanted to be pretty, to look beautiful, as a girl would want to.

Being a bride for Gaultier was a very special moment for me.

I thought about being gay, but it didn’t fit.