Joan Smalls famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Beautiful #World #Want
I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.
-- Joan Smalls

#Basketball #Running #Volleyball
People donâ€™t realize that when youâ€™re Latin, youâ€™re so diverse. I am black. I am Latin. I am Spanish. You know? Itâ€™s a little bit of everything, and thatâ€™s beautiful. So, everybody, claim me. Iâ€™m fine with that!
-- Joan Smalls

#Beautiful #Latin #People
I think its nice to know that people in the industry are paying attention to all of the hard work youve 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

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

#Thinking #Names #People
I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys 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

#Beautiful #Art #Museums
A career high was when I did a cover for W Magazines 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

#Girl #Dream #July
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

#Boys #Looks #Legs
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 #Years #Feet
I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does.
-- Joan Smalls

#Brain #Style #Doe
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 #Makeup #Thinking
I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.
-- Joan Smalls

#Work Out #Scoliosis #Certain
I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.
-- Joan Smalls

#Two #Older Sister #Adore
Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.
-- Joan Smalls

#Fashion #Dresses #Culture
My bikini, a pair of black high heels and a pair of comfortable jeans.
-- Joan Smalls

#High Heels #Jeans #Black
People hide behind the word aesthetic. They say, â€˜Well, itâ€™s just that designerâ€™s aesthetic.â€™ But when you see 18 seasons in a row and not one single model outside a certain skin colorâ€¦? There are people in the industry who are advocates, who support diversity.Â And there are people who do not.Â I donâ€™t get it.Â Beauty is universal. These doors have to open,
-- Joan Smalls

#Skin Color #Doors #People
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 #Rainbow #Looks
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

#Thinking #Different #Want

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