Kim Smith Quotes

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

I'd never planned on being a model.

I never thought I would model for more than a few years.

My sister Gloria asked me to try modeling.

I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.

I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months later, I was one of the fifteen finalists in an international contest.

One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!

I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.

When I was 17, I entered a modeling contest in my home province in China because my mother wanted me to learn better posture. And the rest is history!

I've always wanted to model and act. My first break came to me when I was at a parlour to get a haircut. The salon owner asked me if I would model for them.

I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.

I decided to turn in my pompoms and focus on modeling.

I was 19 or 20 when I won Miss India and then did some exciting work in fashion.

I was in middle school at a bat mitzvah, and a fashion photographer, Suzy Gorman, came up to me and asked me if I considered being a model. I did a shoot with her, and than I signed with an agency in Saint Louis.

While I was in college, I was intrigued by modelling and also won the best model award in my college.

I first realized I wanted to model when my mum and I were at a local carnival, and she took me to a fashion show. I had never been to one before, and when I saw the girls on the catwalk, I fell in love with them.

People associate pageants with glamour, where there are celebrities walking on the ramp wearing beautiful gowns, heels and make-up - but that's just one aspect.

The reality show 'America's Next Top Model' is my girlie pleasure.

I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.

I never thought I'd be the type of girl who'd be doing, like, fashion shoots.

I went to a local modeling school when I was about 10 and learned to walk the runway.

Luckily, one of the perks of being an Angel is that I don't have to go to casting. It's so nerve-wracking - even the girls who have been in the show year after year still get nervous. The show is seen around the world, so it's a huge honor to be selected.

Everything is a catwalk for me. I walk to the store, and that's a catwalk.

I used to love doing the runway shows when I was a model and I miss that sometimes now. But it's great to go back to it every now and then as 'showstopper.'

In ten years of modeling, I've trained myself to relax and be able to use my upper body.