Iman

“There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.”

“I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.”

“I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.”

“Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.”

“We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years!”

“I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.”

“My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.”

“I can't stand my legs, for a start, and you rarely see me in skirts.”

“I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.”

“I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.”

“I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.”

“I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.”

“I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.”

“I don't love eating meat. I really only like chicken and fish.”

“There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.”