ON SELF-KNOWLEDGE
"Everywhere I went, my cleavage followed. But I learned I am not my
cleavage."
-- Carole Mallory
ON POVERTY
"Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery."
-- Beverly Johnson
ON FATE
"I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that."
-- Christie Brinkley
ON PSYCHOLOGY
"I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to
get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth."
-- Tatjana Patitz
ON ARRIVING
"Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more
particular about the acting roles I take."
-- Kathy Ireland, star of 'Alien From L.A.' and 'Danger Island'
ON CAREER CHOICES
"My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian."
-- Paulina Porizkova
ON PRIORITIES
"I would rather exercise than read a newspaper."
-- Kim Alexis
ON GEOPOLITICS
"Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night.
We had the same views on nuclear disarmament."
-- Jerry Hall
ON INNER STRENGTH
"I love the confidence that makeup gives me."
-- Tyra Banks
ON DEATH
"Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it."
-- Cindy Crawford
ON TRAVEL
"I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre.
I haven't seen anything. I don't really care."
-- Tyra Banks
ON BREAKTHROUGHS
"Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball
and modeling."
-- Gabrielle Reece
ON EPIPHANY
"I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought."
-- Christie Brinkley
ON HEREDITY
"My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if
she's ugly? You're ugly."
-- Beverly Johnson
ON THE BASICS
"It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in.
If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your
workout."
-- Cheryl Tiegs
ON INTRODUCTIONS
"I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to
meet yourself
-- it's eerie."
-- Christy Turlington
ON COURTSHIP
"The soundtrack to 'Indecent Exposure' is a romantic mix of music that I know
most women love to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women are
nearby."
-- Fabio
ON PARADOX
"Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone . . ."
-- Tatjana Patitz
ON THE CONSERVATION OF MATTER
"I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face."
-- Claudia Schiffer
ON TRAGEDY
"The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles
-- but I had on thick
tights underneath."
-- Naomi Campbell
ON INSTINCT
"If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some
crackers."
-- Carol Alt
ON THE CASTE SYSTEM
"We're not Prince Charles and Princess Di. We don't think of ourselves as
royalty. We happen to be working people."
-- Christie Brinkley
ON OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS
"I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up having little
scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those with sequins all
over them."
-- Cindy Crawford
ON ECONOMICS
"I don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day."
-- Linda Evangelista
ON ZEN
"When I model I pretty blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work."
-- Paulina Porizkova
ON LOGIC
"I think, If my butt's not too big for them to be photographing it, then it
shouldn't be too big for me."
-- Christy Turlington
ON BODY PARTS
"I don't know what to do with my arms. It just makes me feel weird and I feel
like people are looking at me and that makes me nervous."
-- Tyra Banks
ON BODY LANGUAGE
"You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've gained weight."
-- Christy Turlington
ON DEPRIVATION
"If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time."
-- Linda Evangelista
ON MOTIVATION
"It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and
I would."
-- Kate Moss
ON VERSATILITY
"I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak."
-- Linda Evangelista
ON THE GRIEF PROCESS
"When my Azzedine jacket from 1987 died, I wrapped it up in a box, attached a
note saying where it came from and took it to the Salvation Army. It was a
big loss."
-- Veronica Webb
ON VENGEANCE
"Girls are always getting mad at each other and they tell their
hairdresser to purposely mess up another girl's hair."
-- Tasha
ON BATTING .667
"I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress."
-- Cameron Diaz
In mini-AIR 1995-02 we announced the premiere of the new AIR column "Cindy Crawford Discovers," which reports on the scientific efforts and achievements of supermodel Cindy Crawford (and her ilk) as documented in research journals such as "Vogue," "Cosmopolitan," "Elle," etc.
The following day we received an inquiry from the magazine "Entertainment Weekly," seeking an advance copy of the first column. We duly faxed a copy of the colunm, which concerns Cindy Crawford's recent achievements in chemistry.
A day later, Entertainment Weekly's editors informed us that they consider Cindy Crawford's scientific achievements "too insubstantial" to report.
We must take exception. In our view, Crawford's lack of a Ph.D. in no way disqualifies her from conducting research with shampoos. To see this, one need look no further than her report concerning "a patented outrageous formula... enriched with pro-vitamin B5, silk protein and moisture-binding silicone." (The full text of Crawford's paper appears on page 11 of the January, 1995 issue of the research journal "Vogue.")
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