Most fashion models do not look good in bikinis because they're too thin.

Modeling is a very hard job. I know that sounds like a really shallow thing to say, but you have people pulling on your hair all day, telling you what to do, fitting you, telling you to bend over, hitting you, taking your shoes off, throwing you up against a wall - it's a lot. You have to really be able to handle yourself and bring something. It's not just enough to have a cute body and jump up in the air and go, "wow!"

Gather up your courage like an armful of free clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your inner voice wherever it takes you.

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road.

My mistakes have been some of the best teachers of my life.

For some reason, everyone says "fashion is responsible for skinny models." I don't believe that myself. I believe consumers dictate commercial success and trends in a capitalistic society. So I believe if consumers wanted to see - like, who decided that Barney the Dinosaur was going to be a million-dollar industry?