“I loved watching so many of the great designers I’ve worked with do what they do. That’s why I’m still loyal to the designers that I’ve known since I was 16.”

Look, you have to make mistakes. That’s how you learn and that’s how the world works.

I’ve been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I’d be over and out.

I live my life day by day, and that’s how I continue to live it.

Nothing’s ever come easy to me and nothing ever will and that’s okay. I’m used to that. I go with the challenges. I roll with the punches.

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue… and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

The word reality scared me. I just looked at reality as everybody follows me around with a camera, and I’m not that kind of person. I fought for my privacy in England. And I didn’t see another way it could be done.

It’s a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don’t like is predictable.

Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don’t like to lose, and if I’m told ‘no’, then I find another way to get my ‘yes.’

I look at modeling as something I’m doing for black people in general.

I don’t get depressed. When I feel an attack, I withdraw. I disappear, I replenish, and then I come back.

The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I’m not extreme about what I eat.

I work very hard and I’m worth every cent.

If I’m wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

My features are completely ethnic.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, ‘I let go and I’m going to let the cards fall where they fall; For a #‎ controlfreak , it’s hard.