American - Model | June 14, 1987 -
Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.
Cameron Russell
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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In 2007, a very inspired New York University Ph.D. student counted all the models on the runway, every single one that was hired, and of the 677 models that were hired, only 27, or less than four per cent, were non-white.
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I do have too many eight-inch heels which I never get to wear.
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I am insecure... because I have to think about what I look like every day.
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