Andreja Pejic Quotes

Andreja Pejic

Profession : Model

Birth : August 28, 1991

I love to work with people who are great at what they do.

Andreja Pejic

I was prom queen, and the year before, I was prom king. It was kind of the same; you just got a differently shaped crown.

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I achieved my personal dream and completed my transition to be able to live life as a woman.

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I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom's skirt trying to look like a ballerina.

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Ever since Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. election, I've been trying to expand my scope to understand the thought processes of people who don't see the world, or humanity, as I do.

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My first passion is politics.

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Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself.

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Gender dysphoria is never an easy thing to live with, mainly because people don't understand it.

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I struggled to find an agency in London because no one knew whether they should put me in the men's board or the women's board. There was a lot of uncertainty about my commercial viability.

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Australia was a very different world and culture from the one I left in Europe. Life was much more spread out. People drove everywhere. They built higher fences. Neighbours didn't interact so much.

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You can wax on so much about your figure and your skin and your face and all of those really important, and I'm all about skin and keeping it healthy, but if you don't have confidence, none of it matters.

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The first time I came to New York - and the first time I saw the movie 'Paris Is Burning' - I learned about the homeless LGBT culture in New York City that goes back to the '80s. I found that very interesting, and it's definitely something that I care about.

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When childhood ended, I had to suppress feminine characteristics and try and be a boy. I didn't want to grow up at all because it meant becoming someone else.

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For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn't like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn't attractive.

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If I could talk to my younger self, I would tell her that you will grow into the woman you've always wanted to be. You will find love. You will be successful. You will be happy.

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The way I need to look, it's a very personal thing. When I started experimenting, it was to make myself feel happy, to look in the mirror and be satisfied. I never did drag or anything like that. It was always that I wanted to be pretty, to look beautiful, as a girl would want to.

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The best songs/films/collections expose truths about life and make them universally accessible; they progress humanity.

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My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

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As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

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I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn't just about money.

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