The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.

I started with the modeling.

When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.

With the whole supermodel thing, even when you're not really modeling anymore, people still call me that. And I'm like '... retired.'

I just wanted to be the best dietician in the world - but then modeling took over.

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

I approached flying with full enthusiasm and even won a scholarship. Fate, it seems, had other plans and after completing my course, i ended up modeling.

I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling.

In college, students would do modeling to earn money. I was also doing the same.

I was studying to be a dental hygienist and working as a dental assistant. I met a photographer and decided to put my job on hold for just a summer to begin modeling.

I hated modeling.

Modeling is fun, but unless it's runway, it's just not my thing.

I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.

Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.

With modeling, social media is such a humungous part of it now. You get jobs because of the amount of followers you have.

I was discovered by Paul Marciano of Guess when I was actually, like, two years old. And so I started with Baby Guess; I did Guess Kids, and then I stopped because I was a really competitive horseback rider and a club volleyball player. I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers for volleyball. So, I kind of stopped modeling.

When I was crowned the college queen, I got a lot of modeling offers and I did a fair amount of work in Delhi.

I haven't left modeling completely; I just took a step out, and I now have the rare luxury of picking and choosing how to spend my days.