62 Quotes by Chanel Iman

A good night’s sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.

Honestly, I try to forget Fashion Week once it’s over. I just want to go home and rest and just forget I even did it. It could drive you crazy! It’s just show after show after show, and you’re missing your family and they feel really far away. You don’t go to sleep. You work for a month.

My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it’s always been a dream of hers.

I don’t want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

It usually takes an ethnic girl – I’m not saying black, I’m saying ethnic, let’s make that clear – twice as long. We’ve gotta work extra-hard to stay in the game and stay with the girls who do well but aren’t ethnic.

You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can’t sweat the small stuff.

I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There’s not much more to ask for but I’m still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.

Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I’m young and I already have one job. I’m just focused on my career.

I’m thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.