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It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.
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There are highlights when you become irreplaceable as a model, like when you become a muse to designers. They look at you differently; you're not a coat hanger for hire.
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I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
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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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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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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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I don't love eating meat. I really only like chicken and fish.
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I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.
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When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60.
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I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.
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I can't stand my legs, for a start, and you rarely see me in skirts.
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At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.
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When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.
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That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age - to know my self-worth. And I have had times again and again in the fashion industry where all of that was tested and I rose to the occasion because I was told that I am worthy and I should be able to walk away from something that is not worthy of me.
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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 tell all my younger friends, 'Don't be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.'
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I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.
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I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.
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