Australian - Model | August 28, 1991 -
Instead of trying to be the queen of cool, it feels like more of an achievement to work with mainstream brands and reach as many people as possible. It's more unexpected for someone like me.
Andreja Pejic
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I usually wake up around 9, and the first thing I do is make myself a cup of tea. I drink a lot of tea - green tea, white tea, and all kinds of herbal teas.
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Weirdly enough, I'm a macroeconomics enthusiast.
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Stepping outside of my personal bubble, or that of fashion or beauty, is pretty important to me.
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Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting.
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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.
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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.
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Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women's rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.
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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.
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I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.
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To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.
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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.
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