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" After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people. "

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" I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere. "

Iman

Egypt

School

Speak

" I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come. "

Iman

Said

Leave

" When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me. "

Iman

Prom

Father

" Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther. "

" Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity. "

" The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear. "

" I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple. "

" Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it. "

" When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza. "

" I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that. "

" I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday. "

Iman

Everyday

Just

" I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly. "

" I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans. "

" We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years! "

Iman

Restaurant

Hands

" The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40. "

" I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim. "

" People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears. "

" People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving. "

" My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman. "

Iman

Men

Positive

" I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress. "

" One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed. "

" I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that. "

" I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.' "

" My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come. "

" At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem. "

" If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away. "

" On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs. "

" My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960. "

" Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met. "

Iman

Persona

Singer

" I don't love eating meat. I really only like chicken and fish. "

Iman

Meat

Fish