Not just in modeling, but in society, there’s so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it’s just so unobtainable.
AGYNESS DEYNI’ve always been really private about my personal life. I don’t talk about it.
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I can’t do modeling disconnected. And I thought, “What do I like? What do I love about modeling?”
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I want to play positive role models – women who mean something to other women.
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Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It’s an evolution – doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk.
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My mum used to always dress me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses. And I’d be like, ‘Mum, I just wanna wear my Doc Martens!
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I dont have that many friends.
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When you’re young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, ‘This is totally the truth’, ‘cos you don’t know any difference, so there’s a real confidence in your way of thinking.
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I don’t really go to fashion parties; they’re not my scene.
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I suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I’ve not done any for a good long while now.
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I don’t really see myself as a big supermodel.
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I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching ‘Badlands’ and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.
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I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.
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I was like: “I’m actually doing this.” And now I feel more confident going into something.
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For me, being onstage for an hour and a half, my confidence was really huge for me. Doing eight shows a week for a run.
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I’m not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I’m just going in and doing the job.
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Being such a tomboy growing up, that was one thing that changed me as a person, as well. It broadened me, like me cracking myself open in a certain way.
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