Andreja Pejic Quotes

Andreja Pejic

Profession : Model

Birth : August 28, 1991

Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women's rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.

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When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

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I figured out who I was very early on - actually, at the age of 13, with the help of the Internet - so I knew that a transition, becoming a woman, was always something I needed to do.

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Society doesn't tell you that you can be trans.

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I was lucky to grow up in a family where your parents loved you no matter what you were or what you came out as, and a lot of kids don't have that ride.

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We should give people the freedom to express who they are.

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Weirdly enough, I'm a macroeconomics enthusiast.

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It's not like, 'Okay, today I want to look like a man, or today I want to look like a woman.' I want to look like me. It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

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I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

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Mum's very proud. She finds every picture of me and has them on every wall.

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Makeup is a very delicate thing for me - I've got sort of defined features, so I don't like to do too much contour, as it can be a bit severe.

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I definitely did look back into the past when I was a teenager for transgender icons, like a famous model called Tula in the 1970s-'80s who starred as a 'Bond' girl.

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I do have to thank my mother for my eyebrows.

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People would be surprised by me if they knew I was humble.

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When I was 12, I thought I wanted to be a witch.

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My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

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I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

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I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

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It's good to be noticed.

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I feel that for a lot of my career, I had success, I was adored, but I was also this alien creature. I want to show that I have the skill like any other female model, and I'm asking for the same equal treatment and equal respect as any other female model.

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