I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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That’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
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When I started modelling, I’d raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don’t have to do much to have muscles. It’s just genetic.
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I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
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I didn’t think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
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I’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
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I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
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