I've gone from the edgy girl to the girl you call for H&M and L'Oreal, which is something neither I nor the myriad agencies that rejected me when I tried to get signed could have predicted.
I'm an ambassador for World of Children and St Jude's, it always been very important for me to use modeling as a platform to give back or raise awareness for causes that are important.
I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.
My desire to be an actor or a model precedes my identity.
When I first started modeling, I realised I was very different from many of my colleagues, but I welcomed the opportunities my career in fashion offered me and the support from many inspiring individuals in the fashion industry.
Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!
I wish I could be a model, and then I could have this fantastic body and parade around and get paid for it.
I started modeling at 28. I'm 5-feet-7 1/2, and I never went on a diet. I followed what my doctor told me: 'It's good to have a little bit of fat. Your weight is fine. Don't go any lighter.'
I would love to continue to model but also have a family.
I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, 'Sure.'
My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.
I could be a model for one night. But I'm also a professional soccer player, and I like to be taken seriously on the field.
I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows.
I can't say that I wanted to be an actress, it just happened along the way. I did not even know that I would be doing modelling but that also just happened.
I wanted to become a model since I was a kid.
Modeling for a year taught me a lot. I got very involved in the fashion industry and met a bunch of people who I admired.
I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.
I would love to be a spokes model for Karl Lagerfeld or Balenciaga or something like that.
I started as a model when I was 14 because I wanted to make money.
I never thought I would model for more than a few years.
I started modeling at the age of 14, when I was in Std 9.
I started modeling when I was about 2 or 3 years old; I started with Baby Guess, and I did Guess Kids, and that was the extent of my modeling career as a kid. I took all of my elementary, middle and high school years off to focus on school and sports.
I'm an actress. In this sense, my profession is less complex than that of a model. True, they're into beauty in Hollywood, and it is age-related, but you can't put a girl with hot lips and no wrinkles and say: 'That's the mother of a 14-year-old.'
After graduating, I began auditioning for films while continuing to model. I did a few fashion shows, ad shoots, and even got a few Bollywood offers, but nothing great.
When I became Miss World, movie offers started coming to me in India.
