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Helena Christensen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Elle UK recently asked Helena Christensen, one of \u2018The Big 6\u2019 supermodels, why she thinks supermodels<\/a> became such a phenomenon when they did.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes, moments just happen to coordinate and work out. But I do think that if I was to say anything, we were allowed to just be ourselves,\u201d she told the magazine.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach one of us had a very unique look in the sense that we looked different. There was no conformity about our look\u2014and our personalities too, we had very different personalities<\/a>, and emotionally and mentally we were different\u2014but I think that that put together created this strong force of women. And no one told us to be any different. No one ever came up to me and said, \u2018you need to reshape your body, to lose weight, or to be more outgoing, or less outgoing\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were just allowed to be us, and I think at the end of the day, isn\u2019t that the whole point of being a human being? To be allowed to be yourself, to be accepted the way you are? Ironically enough, in a business where a lot of styles and looks are dictated in some way, from the point of view of the media onto the audience, I think it\u2019s so great that we got to just remain our quirky selves and have the body shapes that we had without anyone ever pointing a finger at anything. Maybe that\u2019s what gave our careers longevity.<\/p>\n

\u201cFashion should be about celebrating somebody\u2019s individual style, personality and look. That\u2019s what\u2019s unique about a person. If you\u2019re going to go and say, you need to look like this, you need to weigh this\u2014what is the point of that, then? It\u2019s so simple, really, and so complicated. It\u2019s always about dictating, it\u2019s always about pointing fingers. Everybody is so busy pointing fingers at someone else that they forget that what we actually need to celebrate is the individuality<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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