One of my half-sisters just couldn't deal with it. I think she saw me as someone she had a hard time relating to. We're super-close now, but I probably came home from Europe with weird opinions and attitudes and weird clothing. I probably looked so different to her, and I couldn't show up for things she would have liked me to. My life picked up speed, and I couldn't really stop the momentum.

Amber Valletta

Categorized in : Thinking Attitude Home

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

Amber Valletta

intelligent brain mean

Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.

Amber Valletta

sexy strong mother

It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.

Amber Valletta

change mind heart

I knew I liked art. I knew I liked photography. I remember seeing photos of Linda Evangelista in Italian Vogue as a teenager, and at the time I didn't know who she was. There were two photos - one shot by Fabrizio Ferri and another one by Steven Meisel. I didn't know who any of those people were. I think it was the first summer I was modeling, I saw these magazines sitting out and looked at them. I remember thinking, These are the kind of images I want to make.

Amber Valletta

photography summer art

I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things.

Amber Valletta

aging dying honor

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

Amber Valletta

cages drunk greek

I wish the word supermodel would just fall off the face of the earth. Anyone can be a supermodel now.

Amber Valletta

earth wish fall

My mom was proud but very hands off. She didn't really know enough about the model industry, and she didn't have the time to stop her life to go chaperone me. I think she trusted me.

Amber Valletta

proud mom thinking

Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

Amber Valletta

trends hurt believe

Modeling isn't boring.

Amber Valletta

modeling boring

I've gotten out of bed a lot of days for a lot less than $10,000.

Amber Valletta

bed

I guess storytelling's always been in my blood. My mom said I was always dressing up and jumping in front of the camera and putting on plays. There must be a part of me that has to express that. If we were living in prehistoric clans, I'd probably be sitting by the campfire taking two stones and showing you how dinosaurs were chasing us. I'd be the one finding a way to communicate and perform.

Amber Valletta

campfire my-mom mom

I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.

Amber Valletta

clothes not-interested

I don't really want to control anyone, to be honest.

Amber Valletta

being-honest honest want

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

Amber Valletta

thinking

I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart.

Amber Valletta

girl heart kids

I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.

Amber Valletta

selfish ego spiritual

Women with short hair are really sexy. There's something liberating about freeing yourself from the norms.

Amber Valletta

norm sexy hair

If I hadn't become a model I thought of doing many things. I wanted to be an archaeologist at one point, but I was a little kid. I wanted to be a social worker.

Amber Valletta

little-kid social-worker kids

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

Amber Valletta

dream past art