Latest Crystal Renn Quotes from Interviews

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• That's what I stand for, telling people you can be just who you are. It's actually more beautiful.

  Crystal Renn

  Beautiful, People, Who You Are

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Do I have bad days? Absolutely. But there are ways to overcome these things and that's perhaps what I do differently: I don't allow myself to dwell day after day on my imperfections.

  Crystal Renn

  Bad Day, Imperfection, Overcoming

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I just couldn't have people thinking that I only believe thin is beautiful. Thin is beautiful, but it's not the only kind of beautiful. I didn't want people to get the wrong message because of some retouching.

  Crystal Renn

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have to say the thing that I want to do so badly is design a line. I still don't know exactly what direction I want to go but designing a line for full-figured women, offering them a chance to have chic clothing that's maybe a little more daring than the clothing they've been offered in the past, I would like the opportunity to create that for them. I'd also like to break into the beauty industry and be the face of a makeup line. I think for it sends a fantastic message: Here's the face of beauty and look, she's a bigger size.

  Crystal Renn

  Past, Makeup, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• We all have demons. I am a human being and I have bad days and I have bad things going on in my head that I have to deal with, but I'm very confident in my recovery.

  Crystal Renn

  Recovery, Bad Day, Demon

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Enough time had passed that I was ready to write the book Hungry. Was it absolutely difficult? Completely. I had to go back and relive one of the more traumatic things in my life. I destroyed my body for three years and I nearly killed myself for a passion that I had. But I was finally able to close the door on that part of my life. It also allowed me to have a voice. And that's something I've wanted since I was a young girl, to be able to be heard.

  Crystal Renn

  Girl, Book, Passion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There are moments in your life where you're like I have arrived. I'm here and I'm living and I'm present. And working with Jean Paul Gaultier was one of them.

  Crystal Renn

  Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I want to be an actress when I'm on set, not just a model. Those are the moments I live for.

  Crystal Renn

  Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I walked into my agency and I said, "You know what? I can't do this. You're telling me I need to go on a diet? My diet is already zucchini only. What do you want me to do?" And basically, they gave me two options: either stay the way I was and do commercial work, or do plus size modeling. I remember having the usual salad but I added walnuts and salmon and olive oil and I thought, "The world didn't blow up!"I felt fantastic. I wanted to keep that feeling so I made a decision that day that I didn't care. There was more money to be made being healthy.

  Crystal Renn

  Blow, Decision, Healthy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• We're fighting a stigma: fat. People are really scared of fat. And I think we need to change people's minds and show that you can be bigger and you can be beautiful just as you are. It's about being and loving yourself and once I discovered that, life got much easier.

  Crystal Renn

  Beautiful, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's so hard to give beauty a meaning. I actually find quite a lot of beauty in really painful things. Really grotesque things. Things that are disturbing. I think as you go and as you see things in the world, your idea of beauty expands and I think I'm lucky because I've been exposed to so many different types of beauty and I've realized that any feeling you cherish is beautiful.

  Crystal Renn

  Beautiful, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have no problem with plus-size term because it kind of saved my life; however I don't love that we have to give each other titles. I don't think that there's any reason I should be any different than a size two girl. But I'm not embarrassed of that term. I'm lucky that I have a place where I can model and be healthy.

  Crystal Renn

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Pascal Wager invented the calculator and he also said you can apply mathematics to faith in God so I thought that was pretty interesting.

  Crystal Renn

  Interesting, Faith In God, Mathematics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I like to think of myself as a child of the world. I really am based in New York but I find that even though I'm based there, I'm gone more often than not.

  Crystal Renn

  Children, Thinking, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Looking back, it didn't even occur to me that model was a job. I wanted to go into astronomy or to be a lawyer, which is really funny because I would absolutely not be a lawyer in any way now. But I still like astronomy.

  Crystal Renn

  Lawyer, Astronomy, Looking Back

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Focus and having energy is the most important goal when choosing my activities and how I treat myself.

  Crystal Renn

  Goal, Focus, Important

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• Besides being a model, I'm a human and a woman.

  Crystal Renn

  Models, Humans

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• There's been a lot of focus on my body, but it's taught me to appreciate myself no matter where I am.

  Crystal Renn

  Appreciate, Focus, Body

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• No matter what size you are, you must be healthy. I focus on health as a model, whether it's doing yoga, hiking, kickboxing - those things bring me joy.

  Crystal Renn

  Yoga, Hiking, Focus

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I believe in trying foods from all over the world, going to markets and finding jewelry and furniture and just treating myself well. It's important for me creatively to travel.

  Crystal Renn

  Believe, Important, Trying

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I've been collecting crystals for many, many years for healing purposes and decoration. I guess since my name is Crystal, I have no choice.

  Crystal Renn

  Healing, Years, Names

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I absolutely believe that when one goes on vacation, it should be pure decadence.

  Crystal Renn

  Believe, Vacation, Goes On

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I'm very lucky that I have people styling my hair and teaching me how to work with it, but it wasn't always like that. Growing up, I had extremely wavy and thick hair and that can be very overwhelming - you end up with the same ponytail every day.

  Crystal Renn

  Growing Up, Teaching, Hair

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• You can never go wrong with a nice red lip. I'm not afraid to wear it during the day or basically any time because I wear a lot of black and it's a great backdrop for it.

  Crystal Renn

  Nice, Black, Red

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• Redken is a brand I've been using since I was a kid, my grandmother introduced it to me, my mother used it, so obviously I was very aware of the brand, so when I heard we were going to meet and potentially do something in the future, I was very excited.

  Crystal Renn

  Mother, Kids, Excited

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com