When I gave a talk at TEDx, I thought that if I did a good job, the video might go viral. – Cameron Russell
Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said? – Cameron Russell
Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day. – Cameron Russell
Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go. – Cameron Russell
My first day of high school, I wore brown boys’ corduroys that my mom had sewn Sesame Street elastic into – they were my coolest pants – and a lime green Patagonia fleece that my mom found at Goodwill. I loved fleece. – Cameron Russell
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist. – Cameron Russell
When I first lived in a model apartment… It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, ‘You’re making all the girls fat.’ They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened. – Cameron Russell
Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible. – Cameron Russell
When you’re looking through a magazine, you’d think every single person’s a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup. – Cameron Russell
I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics. – Cameron Russell
I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look. – Cameron Russell
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin. – Cameron Russell
Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that’s because we’re more valuable objects and ornaments. – Cameron Russell
Women are often worried about how they look, and that’s not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth. – Cameron Russell
I’ve had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative. – Cameron Russell
I’m not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I’m not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that’s not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that. – Cameron Russell
It’s going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill. – Cameron Russell
I think it’s cooler when girls have favorite pieces of clothing rather than an entirely new wardrobe every few months. – Cameron Russell
You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one. – Cameron Russell
We can’t just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don’t look like 25-year-old white models. – Cameron Russell
