IJMC - Models Speak Out

Oh drat, as if their lives are _sooooooo_ hard...poor dears.	       -dave





 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 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 ZEN
 "When I model I'm 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 BATTING .667
 "I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress."
     -- Cameron Diaz

 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'





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