People always ask me…‘Can I be a model when I grow up?’ And the first answer is, ‘I don’t know, they don’t put me in charge of that.’ But the second answer, and what I really want to say to these little girls is, ‘Why? You know you can be anything — you could be the president of the United States, or the inventor of the next Internet, or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome, because you’d be the first one.’
If after this amazing list they are still like, ‘No, No, Cameron, I want to be a model,’ well, then I say, ‘Be my boss,’ because I’m not in charge of anything, and you could be the editor-in-chief of American Vogue, or the CEO of H&M, or the next Steven Meisel.
Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up: it’s out of your control, and it’s awesome, and it’s not a career path.
Unfortunately after you’ve gone to school and you have a résumé and you’ve done a few jobs, you can’t say anything anymore. So if you say you want to be the president of the United States and your résumé says, ‘Underwear model: 10 years,’ people give you a funny look.”
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