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Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

I don't really consider myself a model, to be honest. I respect designers; I think it's another art, you know.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

Not just in modeling, but in society, there's so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it's just so unobtainable. You can never become that thing, because it's such a projection.

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

I've always loved those portraits that Alfred Stieglitz did of Georgia O'Keeffe over several years, which really convey the idea that there's not one image that can capture a woman, because we're changing all the time.

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

I don't think of myself as a model. I'm genderqueer, and I've got tattoos.