Quotes

  • Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.
  • I’ve never been to the gym. I do nothing.
  • I like to travel all over the world and learn new cultures. Not that many people have the opportunity to do that.
  • I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.
  • For makeup, I love Shu Uemura. For my skin, I don’t like to use much lotion or any soaps. I just let mother nature do her job.
  • Fashion is about good energy. It’s about feelings. That’s what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.
  • If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!
  • Every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you’re young, you don’t know how to defend yourself.
  • Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it’s about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.
  • It’s wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don’t care about style or money. I care about heart.
  • I didn’t know anything about fashion. I couldn’t believe it when I got here. I don’t know how I’m sitting here right now speaking English.
  • People have asked me if Lenny (Kravitz) was good in bed. I have no idea, and I really don’t care now!
  • I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.
  • I think I want to be an actress. But first I need to try to get a better accent!
  • If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don’t see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.
  • For the moment I like my body. I don’t think it’s the best one, but I don’t have anything I don’t like about it-yet. 
  • My best moment was taking the plane when I came to New York. My family was really poor, and we would never have had the money to take a plane.
  • Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don’t give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
  • I try to control what I eat, but the truth is I can’t. I tried to give up meat last week, but I only lasted three days.
  • I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that’s how I started.
  • My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he’s so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone.
  • You don’t have to have an attitude if you’re famous.
  • When I get older, I don’t think I’ll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.
  • Younger guys are just too jealous.