Iman Quotes

Iman

Profession : Model

Birth : July 25, 1955

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

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Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.

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Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others. Wigs, killer heels, Pilates, even fillers - whatever works for you, honey.

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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.

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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.

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If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.

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My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.

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My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.

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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.

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I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.'

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Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.

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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.

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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

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I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.

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I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.

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I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception.

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I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

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