I started modeling at the age of 14, when I was in Std 9.
Modeling was something that fell into my lap. It was fun to travel and make money, but it always seemed like a hobby.
Before I started my modeling career at 20, I used to replay fashion show videos on-line and study how famous models walk and pose on runways.
I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.
I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.
I did a modeling gig once, but I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.
Modeling was another job like some of the other ones I had. Working as a cashier, I delivered newspapers, I worked in a retirement home feeding elderly people. . . so I never stopped and thought about, boy, I'm a successful model.
I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.
A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.
I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.
I modeled from the time I was 15 until I was 20.
If you want to be a model, then you should probably become an actor. That's the only way to get hired to do the great advertising campaigns that are really interesting or the magazine covers, and it's hard to build a name for yourself as a model without those things.
I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I’d be happy.
While in Paris, I got into modeling - photographers would literally stop me on the street.
Modeling is a great job to be in. You travel the world. You stay in one of the most fantastic places in the world. It is not always as glamorous as it looks, it's a lot of hard work, too, but it's a lot of fun at the same time.
If I tried to start modeling right now, I wouldn't be a supermodel because it's all about celebrity.
We have a lot of trans friends. We know lots of people who have been trying to [model]; we know a lot about it.
I don't think modelling is a career I'm going to pursue.
I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma. I want to be seen as a classic model.
When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience.
I started modeling because I thought it would be a good stepping stone for what I was studying (marketing), but since I started it I never had any intention to fail.
Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage.
Modeling is where my career started, and it's not something that I think I'm ever going to fully say goodbye to.
If someone has the opportunity to become a model, I would say, 'Do it.'
