76 Quotes by Helena Christensen

Don’t tell anyone. I’m supposed to be dumb.

I’ve taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.

In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I’d sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there’s a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a ‘Vogue’ shoot.

I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world – I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.

It’s really intimidating to go on the beach in a bikini.

It’s flabbergasting. I can understand if you have your legs spread and you’re pushing yourself into the camera – that’s sexually erotic. But the sensual contours in the male or female shape? Come on, guys, relax.

I love breasts. I love the female shape. It’s crazy – you can have movie posters with men with machine guns but, oh, God forbid you show the nipples! That never ceases to amaze me.