Andreja Pejic

“I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.”

“Growing up, I was quite self-conscious about getting too tall, but then I realized, 'You know what? I can use it to my advantage. Big is beautiful.'”

“I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.”

“There are so many male models who are working in high fashion, and they are broke. It's good to be a woman.”

“I was planning to transition right after high school and attend university as a girl, but then the modeling thing came up. It was an opportunity to see the world. My family knew I identified as a girl, but I didn't tell people in fashion.”

“I kick off my metabolism with a glass of O.J. and a pretty big smoothie. I put in chia seeds, flax seeds, raw organic honey, fresh spinach, hemp seeds, avocado, matcha, spirulina, raw almond butter, almond milk, berries, sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds.”

“I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.”

“It's not like, 'Okay, today I want to look like a man, or today I want to look like a woman.' I want to look like me. It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.”

“I take biotin and silica for my hair to grow faster, but it's good for your skin, too.”

“I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.”

“I was born a girl; it just took me a little while to become one fully.”

“Don't do things just to impress others or just because you're scared you won't have any friends.”

“I've definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I'm sure most girls have.”

“I am 6 foot 2 inches, and one of the benefits of that is having long legs.”

“When I first went to Milan, my agent said you have to give off a strong, masculine energy. They don't like campiness. They like boys to appear straight and to appear masculine. I quickly learned the game of it and how to navigate around it.”

“I just want to prove that I can do anything any other female model can do.”

“To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.”

“In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?”

“Weirdly enough, I'm a macroeconomics enthusiast.”

“It would be lovely to live in a world where trans-female models were treated as female models, and trans-male models were treated the same as male models rather than being a niche commodity.”