WISDOM.
ON
COURAGE
“They were doing a full back shot of
me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be
so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from
behind.”
— Cindy
Crawford
ON
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
“Everywhere I went, my cleavage
followed. But I learned I am not my cleavage.”
— Carole Mallory
ON
POVERTY
“Everyone should have enough money to
get plastic surgery.”
— Beverly
Johnson
ON
FATE
“I wish my butt did not go sideways, but
I guess I have to face that.”
— Christie
Brinkley
ON
PSYCHOLOGY
“I loved making ‘Rising Sun’. I got
into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied
up
in plastic bags. It has to do with low
self-worth.”
— Tatjana
Patitz
ON
ARRIVING
“Because modeling is lucrative, I’m
able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles
I
take.”
—
Kathy Ireland, star of ‘Alien From L.A.’ and ‘Danger
Island’
ON CAREER
CHOICES
“My boyfriend thinks I lost my true
calling to be a librarian.”
— Paulina
Porizkova
ON
PRIORITIES
“I would rather exercise than read
a newspaper.”
— Kim
Alexis
ON
GEOPOLITICS
“Mick Jagger and I just really
liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views
on
nuclear
disarmament.”
— Jerry
Hall
ON INNER
STRENGTH
“I love the confidence that makeup
gives me.”
— Tyra
Banks
ON
DEATH
“Richard doesn’t really like me to kill
bugs, but sometimes I can’t help it.”
— Cindy
Crawford
ON TRAVEL
“I haven’t seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame,
the Louvre. I haven’t seen anything. I
don’t
really care.”
— Tyra
Banks
ON
BREAKTHROUGHS
“Once I got past my anger toward
my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and
modeling.”
— Gabrielle
Reece
ON
EPIPHANY
“I just found out that I’m one inch
taller than I thought.”
— Christie
Brinkley
ON
HEREDITY
“My husband was just OK looking. I
was in labor and I said to him, ‘What if she’s ugly?
You’re
ugly.'”
— Beverly
Johnson
ON THE
BASICS
“It’s very important to have the right
clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or
sweats,
it’s not inspiring for your
workout.”
— Cheryl
Tiegs
ON
INTRODUCTIONS
“I think most people are curious
about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself — it’s
eerie.”
— Christy
Turlington
ON
COURTSHIP
“The soundtrack to ‘Indecent
Exposure’ is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love
to
hear, so I never keep it far from me when
women are nearby.”
—
Fabio
ON
PARADOX
“Sometimes I get lonely, but it’s nice
to be alone.”
— Tatjana
Patitz
ON THE CONSERVATION OF
MATTER
“I’ve looked in the mirror every day
for 20 years. It’s the same face.”
— Claudia
Schiffer
ON
TRAGEDY
“The worst was when my skirt fell down
to my ankles — but I had on thick tights
underneath.”
— Naomi
Campbell
ON
INSTINCT
“If I’m making a movie and get
hungry, I call time-out and eat some
crackers.”
— Carol
Alt
ON THE CASTE
SYSTEM
“We’re not Prince Charles and Princess
Di. We don’t think of ourselves as royalty. We happen
to
be working
people.”
— Christie
Brinkley
ON OCCUPATIONAL
HAZARDS
“I tried on 250 bathing suits in one
afternoon and ended up having little scabs up and down
my
thighs, probably from some of those with
sequins all over them.”
— Cindy
Crawford
ON
ECONOMICS
“I don’t wake up for less than
$10,000 a day.”
— Linda
Evangelista
ON
THINKING
“When I model I pretty blank. You
can’t think too much or it doesn’t work.”
—
Paulina Porizkova
ON
LOGIC
“I think, If my butt’s not too big for
them to be photographing it, then it shouldn’t be too big for
me.”
— Christy
Turlington
ON BODY
PARTS
“I don’t know what to do with my arms.
It just makes me feel weird and I feel like people
are
looking at me and that makes me
nervous.”
— Tyra
Banks
ON BODY
LANGUAGE
“You can usually tell when I’m happy
by the fact that I’ve gained weight.”
—
Christy Turlington
ON
DEPRIVATION
“If they had Nautilus on the
Concorde, I would work out all the time.”
—
Linda Evangelista
ON
MOTIVATION
“It was kind of boring for me to
have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I
would.”
— Kate
Moss
ON
VERSATILITY
“I can do anything you want me to
do so long as I don’t have to speak.”
— Linda
Evangelista
ON THE GRIEF
PROCESS
“When my Azzedine jacket from 1987
died, I wrapped it up in a box, attached a note saying
where
it came from and took it to the
Salvation Army. It was a big loss.”
—
Veronica Webb
ON
VENGEANCE
“Girls are always getting mad at
each other and they tell their hairdresser to purposely mess
up
another girl’s
hair.”
—
Tasha
ON
SELF-ESTEEM
“I’m a pretty girl who’s a model
who doesn’t suck as an actress.”
— Cameron
Diaz