My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it's always been a dream of hers.
Honestly, I try to forget Fashion Week once it's over. I just want to go home and rest and just forget I even did it. It could drive you crazy! It's just show after show after show, and you're missing your family and they feel really far away. You don't go to sleep. You work for a month.
I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!
Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.
At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway.
You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.
I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.
We always had 'Vogue' in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in 'Vogue.'