Joan Smalls Quotes

A career high was when I did a cover for 'W Magazine''s July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true.
Joan Smalls

True, Career, Dream

Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.
Joan Smalls

Pretty, Fashion, Culture

I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.
Joan Smalls

Two, Older, Sisters

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.
Joan Smalls

Work, Strength, Core

I became obsessed watching fashion TV shows when I was a teenager and recognized that I had the height and body frame. I especially became hooked when I saw on 'E! True Hollywood Story' how much a model can make and how I can achieve a better living for my family and me.
Joan Smalls

Family, True, Fashion

I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, 'The Artist is Present', in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.
Joan Smalls

Love, Time, Art

I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.
Joan Smalls

Beauty, Beautiful, Show

I know I'm representing a group - black, Latin, whatever you want to put me with - and I want to show that they are beautiful the way they are. I think that's really important for our youth to see.
Joan Smalls

Beautiful, Important, Black

I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
Joan Smalls

Music, Wrong, Show

I think it's nice to know that people in the industry are paying attention to all of the hard work you've done throughout the years and rewarding you for it. It reminds you to keep doing it, to keep pushing yourself, and to always remain that way.
Joan Smalls

Work, Nice, Yourself

I try not to go to sleep with makeup, because I think it clogs your pores. I always wash my face with something that contains salicylic acid.
Joan Smalls

Sleep, Try, Face

I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.
Joan Smalls

Insecure, Everyone, Half

I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.
Joan Smalls

Skinny, Legs, Double

I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does.
Joan Smalls

Love, Brain, Her

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.
Joan Smalls

Everything, Sometimes, Name

My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times I want to dress more elegantly. Most of the time it's what I like to call 'comfortable chic': Giuseppe Zanotti flat sandals, Rag & Bone jeans, slouchy Isabel Marant shirts.
Joan Smalls

Time, Sometimes, Personal

When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?
Joan Smalls

Beautiful, Someone, Why

When you want something so bad and when something great happens, I think it's instinct that you say, 'This is gonna be the moment that's gonna change everything. Everybody is gonna see me a different way.'
Joan Smalls

Change, Great, Bad

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Biography

Nationality: Puerto Rican

Type: Model

Born: July 11, 1988

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