High Quote by Nia Jax

I started modelling in college, but it was part time since I was kind of nerdy and wanted to finish my studies.

— Diana Penty

I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and…

— Irina Shayk

I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.

— Bar Paly

I rarely had the opportunity to work as a full time model or to pursue a professional career in modelling, because school was always…

— Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

I was still playing basketball and baseball - everything else I wanted to do as a kid. Modeling was a chance to get out…

— Michael B. Jordan

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model

— Rachael Leigh Cook

I went to a modeling agency and said I wanted to be a model. I worked, worked, worked so much while I was studying.

— Monica Bellucci

I was in middle school at a bat mitzvah, and a fashion photographer, Suzy Gorman, came up to me and asked me if I…

— Devon Windsor

For fifty years, I was a part-time model, but basically, I'm a nutritionist, a teacher, a mother.

— Maye Musk

Basketball is my main sport, which I got a lot of scholarships through, but I chose modeling over basketball, though.

— Nia Jax

I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

— Gabrielle Reece

Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being…

— LeBron James