Barbie Ferreira Quotes
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People try to sell a fantasy with beauty campaigns. Overly Photoshopped, perfect, white, thin figures are a standard that most people still hold as beautiful because the industry says so.
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People claim to be progressive by celebrating curvy bodies - but the standards for those hourglass shapes are equally rigid. They mask that with body positivity - but what about unconventionally attractive bodies?
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I was on the cover of French 'Grazia,' which was amazing. It was all over Paris!
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I don't want people to think I think I am the most diverse thing fashion has ever seen or whatever. But there are so many different walks of life that I don't represent, and there is no one person who does.
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The beauty industry is just like the fashion industry - prejudice is ingrained. But with new people coming in with fresh eyes and passion, I definitely am seeing progress.
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Don't be afraid to show off who you are.
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I'm a model, and I happen to model for curvy things, but at the end of the day, I'm still in front of a camera just like anyone else.
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I always, always take my makeup off last thing at night, no matter what.
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I started my modelling career by sending my pictures to American Apparel and eventually meeting my friend Petra Collins, who started shooting me for magazines around New York. I ended up signing a modelling contract with Wilhelmina Models a couple of years later.
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I never thrived in high school.
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Black high-waisted bottoms go with everything.
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There's so much more to life than how you look.
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You were not put on this earth to do everything to be sexually appealing to people.
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Hair-wise, the move for me is to not wash it. I try to only wash it when I have to or for a shoot or something.
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I rarely got retouched when I started modeling, and it was crucial to me to show an accurate, realistic picture of me because that's beautiful, too.
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I typically get 7 to 8 hours, but I'm a 12-plus-hour sleeper. I need to go into hibernation once a week to refuel.
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Seeing someone that you can relate to in the media is everything as a child, and a lot of people are not granted that luxury.
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Showing young girls' realistically captured bodies in ads lets young girls realise that it's okay to have dimples, stretches, rolls, etc. since we're only human.
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The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am, and I've just learned to own that.
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What the body-positive movement wants is to stop categorizing people, and to let people of all body types be able to do anything, whether they're slightly bigger than the average model or a lot bigger.
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I don't really listen to the media or anyone's perception of beauty, so it makes me almost immune to silly comments about my body.
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My favorite models are always going to be the people who are pushing the boundary and challenging what it is to be a model.
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Don't focus on your body. Love it, but know it'll never be up to society's standards because it's all Photoshop and exclusivity. And that's okay!
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At first, I was scared that if I claimed I modeled, people would be like, 'What?'