I didn't like the idea of changing myself for the industry. I felt to have my teeth straightened and bleached and to starve myself to change my body was not respecting who I was.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.
I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.
I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.
It's taken me a long time to get back into the industry. People were not really open to me working, or being a part of the industry.
I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.
I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough.
I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
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