Andrej Pejic Quotes

Love has no boundaries.

To all trans youth out there, I would like to say respect yourself and be proud of who you are. All human beings deserve equal treatment no matter their gender identity or sexuality. To be perceived as what you say you are is a basic human right.

It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful.

I don't get out of bed for less than $50 a day.

I want to make that clear to America. This is a new age of androgynous supermodels. We don't get out of bed for less than $50 a day.

I find myself to be quite sarcastic, and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't get that.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get...Is that because women are considered something less?

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

I love to work with people who are great at what they do.

All women have a complicated relationship to beauty, but as a transgender woman it's a bit more complicated. There's a lot of pressure to appear feminine. When I was younger, I was most insecure about my size, my angular features, my feet, my hands . At the end of the day, it's about being comfortable in your own skin, and being able to walk down the street and not have people question your gender - and, for me, being perceived as a woman.

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model.

Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear makeup sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter. I don't really have that sort of strong gender identity-I identify as what I am. The fact that people are using it for creative or marketing purposes, it's just kind of like having a skill and using it to earn money.

I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

Sometimes I do just have to stop and hit myself in the head with my diamond-encrusted vase.

As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.

I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.