Andreja Pejic Quotes

Andreja Pejic

Profession : Model

Birth : August 28, 1991

I was born a girl; it just took me a little while to become one fully.

Andreja Pejic

Stepping outside of my personal bubble, or that of fashion or beauty, is pretty important to me.

Andreja Pejic

My mum would say sometimes, 'Do you think you might be gay?' But it wasn't that. When I imagined myself in a romantic setting, it was heterosexual, but I was just always a girl.

Andreja Pejic

I wanted to be a good kid, and I wanted to please my parents.

Andreja Pejic

I think a life of a human being is not something you can explain in a few interview questions. The stuff you do in the media is sometimes a great reflection and sometimes not a great reflection of who you are as a person.

Andreja Pejic

There are so many male models who are working in high fashion, and they are broke. It's good to be a woman.

Andreja Pejic

The fact that my body is presented as an unrealistic ideal of 'beauty' to the world doesn't stop me - or most other models - from feeling unsure about ourselves.

Andreja Pejic

A lot of people, when they look at the whole trans thing, they think,'Oh, you're transgender, and in the fashion industry, which is very pro-LGBT, so you don't have any problems because it's a progressive place.' But that's not the reality.

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I usually go with the 'less is more' approach.

Andreja Pejic

Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting.

Andreja Pejic

I am 6 foot 2 inches, and one of the benefits of that is having long legs.

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When I'm nervous, I can't eat or sleep.

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If I wasn't modeling, I'd be studying economics or international politics.

Andreja Pejic

When I first went to Milan, my agent said you have to give off a strong, masculine energy. They don't like campiness. They like boys to appear straight and to appear masculine. I quickly learned the game of it and how to navigate around it.

Andreja Pejic

I was scouted working at the register at McDonald's in Melbourne, Australia. I worked there as my first job, and a guy walked in and gave me his card. I was 16. I was skeptical, but I looked it up when I got home, and it was legitimate.

Andreja Pejic

It would be lovely to live in a world where trans-female models were treated as female models, and trans-male models were treated the same as male models rather than being a niche commodity.

Andreja Pejic

Makeup contracts are the Oscars of the modeling world.

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Other women don't go around saying, 'Wow, I'm female.' They have room in their lives for other things. That's my goal. One day, I would like to be just another girl.

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I find myself to be quite sarcastic, and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't get that.

Andreja Pejic

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. Just not overweight.

Andreja Pejic