Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English model Jean Shrimpton.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Jean Rosemary Shrimpton is an English model and actress. She was an icon of Swinging London and is considered to be one of the world's first supermodels.
She appeared on numerous magazine covers including Vogue,Harper's Bazaar,Vanity Fair,Glamour,Elle,Ladies' Home Journal,Newsweek, and Time. In 2009, Harper's Bazaar named Shrimpton one of the 26 best models of all time, and in 2012, Time named her one of the 100 most influential fashion icons of all time. She starred alongside Paul Jones in the film Privilege (1967).
It was great fun becoming famous, but I got tired of it.
I never liked being photographed. I just happened to be good at it.
If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.