The horrible thing is, as a model, it wasn't that unusual to be in a weird situation where a photographer or someone feels they have a right to your body.
— Trish Goff
When I started modeling, all I really wanted to get was a Shabby Chic couch.
The bubble bowl! Yes, that made my career, and I should be grateful. I was stomping my feet when Garren was giving me that haircut. It's hard to say to a 17-year-old girl in 1993 that a bowl haircut was cool.
When I started making money, I immediately began buying property and fixing it up. I was always searching for the next neighborhood. The first place I bought when I was 19. I found a huge loft on the Lower East Side, almost 3,500 square feet. I did it up, turned it over, and sold it.
When I started modeling at 15, there were no provisions for on-set tutors, and so I dropped out of school. Although I was one of the lucky ones who went on to a successful career as a model, as a child I should never have been forced to make that choice - between modeling and education.
Being able to walk in a room with people you don't know and be comfortable - I'm very used to that.
Modeling will slow down no matter who you are.
Having come from a working-class family in the rural South, the fashion industry opened my eyes to culture, arts, and the world.
American 'Vogue' and the Versace campaign by Richard Avedon were huge for me. It put me on the map.
Modeling wasn't necessarily what I was into. It's something that you're genetically qualified to do.
