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I want to establish myself as someone who can act and doesn't have to rely on my figure or modelling background.
I did a lot of ramp modelling in South Africa and Hong Kong, when models were free to dance and walk on the ramp.
The average British woman is a size 12 to 14, but in modelling, a size 12 is considered huge, which is ridiculous.
I hadn't even thought about what I wanted to do when I left school because I was only 14 when I started modelling.
Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing because it's what I want to do.
When I was young, I used to tell my mum that she had to get me on the TV, but then modelling just sort of happened.
I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.
With modelling, if you want to be good at it, you try to tell a story in a photo and give a person a sense of feeling.
For me, the most difficult move was when I chose to quit modelling and applied for a position of an assistant director.
I'll always try to follow my heart into things I love, and modelling is not something I'm dreaming of pursuing forever.
I think one of the secrets to modelling is the less you care and the more you're yourself, the more successful you are.
With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.
I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma. I want to be seen as a classic model.
I think with modelling and acting these days, the lines are blurred. Everyone can do all sorts of things, so why do just one?
I never really thought about modelling. It wasn't something I ever wanted to do. I used to always be so angry about modelling.
I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.
Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.
Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.
From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.
People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.
Modelling, fashion and film have all encouraged me to learn more about issues and to feel empowered enough to do something about them.
I was always focussed on the modelling and succeeding in that, but now I'm completely focused on making it over in India in the movies.
My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I was scouted sunbathing in St Tropez.
When I came to Mumbai in 2005 for a holiday, I received work offers. So I decided to stay back and pursue a modelling and acting career.
I had started modelling and doing ramp shows. Then I signed the 'Kama Sutra' campaign. Overnight I became known as this sexy, hot chick.
I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't dissuade me.
Initially, I got admission in Hindu College, but it was far from my home in Malviya Nagar. Since I was modelling, too, I opted for Gargi.
My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.
I shopped a lot on 1stdibs.com when I first started modelling. Just whenever, I've always been on and bought all my furniture on 1stdibs.com.
I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.
I think modelling is a very difficult thing. It's glamorous and fun, but underneath it all, you know your flaws, and those are what you focus on.
We signed up my little girl to a modelling agency. This week she was doing a TV commercial for Aldi. She's done JD, Next, Speedos. She enjoys it.
When I began modelling in my late teens, I started to earn a lot of money very, very quickly, but I'd never been shown how to manage it properly.
You can call me a Mumbai girl since I have spent the first ten years of my life here. Then I shifted to Goa, where I got my first modelling break.
In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.
If I had a modelling job and then it became a poster, it meant that my kids and I could have turkey for Christmas dinner. Otherwise, we had chicken.
I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.
I try to separate my modelling work from my school life because I don't want people to think of me differently or that I am a certain way because of it.
I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.
Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
Heading to Paris when I was 17 and modelling exposed me to high fashion, which influenced me to dress on-trend - not extravagantly, but always in fashion.
When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought, 'Please don't fall over, please don't fall over, please don't fall over!'
Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.
When you're a young boy, you're looking at older men for role modelling. Before I loved De Niro, I loved Clint Eastwood; I loved John Wayne. And James Bond.
When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.
With modelling, a lot happens behind the scenes; all the fittings and hair and makeup. Then the runway takes two minutes - you just walk out and come back in!
Just having the whole control over your body is so important when you're modelling - to just be able to know exactly what you look like and what you're doing.
I started modelling while still studying. I liked doing television commercials and being in front of the camera. Lots of ad directors told me to try for films.
I always wanted to be an actor, and then modelling came first. But I don't want to diminish the fact that I always wanted, and had the passion, to be an actor.