17 Quotes by Iman Abdulmajid

My saving grace was that I always knew when to leave the party.

As a young girl, I was much more preoccupied by my flaws. Everyone teased me because of my long, skinny neck. To hide my so-called deformity, I was wearing a turtleneck when I was 3! Yet my neck is probably my best asset. At the end of the day, what counts is the entire package.

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some.

Your image as a model is your currency. That’s the only thing you’ve got. No one cares what you look like in real life. Nobody is going to say the make up guy was terrible. They will say, you look awful and let’s not book her again.

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

The one thing my mother instilled in me, well both my parents but specifically my mother – I come from a Muslim country where boys were more wanted than girls so she always made me feel that there is nothing that I couldn’t do as well as the boys if not better.