Andreja Pejic

“I love Amanda Lear, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone.”

“For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn't like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn't attractive.”

“I have a very angular face, so my makeup routine is focused around softening my features, and I've finally learned how to contour to my advantage.”

“I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom's skirt trying to look like a ballerina.”

“I kick off my metabolism with a glass of O.J. and a pretty big smoothie. I put in chia seeds, flax seeds, raw organic honey, fresh spinach, hemp seeds, avocado, matcha, spirulina, raw almond...”

“I definitely did look back into the past when I was a teenager for transgender icons, like a famous model called Tula in the 1970s-'80s who starred as a 'Bond' girl.”

“I remember as a kid, my mom had to trade canned food to buy my brother and me chocolate because we were living in Serbia at the time, and there were sanctions. If I catch myself complaining...”

“To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppress...”

“When I was little, the idea of waking up as a girl was like a fairytale. I had this idea that I'd meet a witch who would transform me. From the moment I found out that it was actually possib...”

“I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.”

“Weirdly enough, I'm a macroeconomics enthusiast.”

“I usually go with the 'less is more' approach.”

“I was scouted working at the register at McDonald's in Melbourne, Australia. I worked there as my first job, and a guy walked in and gave me his card. I was 16. I was skeptical, but I looked...”

“I struggled to find an agency in London because no one knew whether they should put me in the men's board or the women's board. There was a lot of uncertainty about my commercial viability.”