Chanel Iman Quotations

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

Don't be afraid to express yourself through fashion!

I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

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

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

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

I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway.

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

I drink a lot of protein shakes and do a lot of weight lifting.

I'm grateful to look the way I do. However, if I could change anything, I would like to be a bit bigger all over. Not much - just a bit.

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.

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.

Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.

No babies for me until I'm in my 30s! I'm focused on my career right now. I can't even take care of my dog.

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.

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.

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.

We always had 'Vogue' in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in 'Vogue.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion - I used to love, love, love modeling.

I’m 23 right now and I feel like I’m still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, I’ll have it all together. So maybe 25 is the age at which a woman feels her most beautiful just because she’s survived her teenage years and early twenties.

I always take my time when picking out outfits at home, but I will say I can change pretty quick when I'm in a hurry.

When I know I have a huge shoot, I’ll just go into the sauna and steam out my face. Product-wise, I don’t really do much because I sometimes think products make me break out . I just use normal soap and water and moisturizer. My brows are really important to me but I’ve never plucked or waxed them. I’ll just fill them in with Anastasia brow kit.

That’s my next journey - to be a great actress.

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.

I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.

In a couple of years, I'll be the most glamorous woman, hopefully.

I'm really focused when I'm working out, so I don't really listen to music. I like to listen to music after, because it's like, 'Yeah! I finished! Let's party!

I'm really into natural and organic products.

I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just... sit. And I don't gain a thing.

I'm a Christian girl. I pray every night and before meals and before I go on stage not to fall.

Accept yourself, love yourself.