Overcoming obstacles and achieving goals is rarely easy, but a great way to give your confidence a boost on days when it's needed? With an inspiring story — and possibly a graphic tee, complete with a motivational saying. Luckily, top model Jourdan Dunn [1] can offer both, since she's now the face of a retail collection for #ActuallySheCan [2], a female empowerment campaign by healthcare company Allergan.
Chatting with Jourdan about her new gig, we knew we had to ask: was there ever a time she was told she couldn't do something?
"When I fell pregnant, I saw a lot of stuff on blogs saying 'Jourdan might not recover from this' and 'Why'd she go and do this?'" the model told us, referring back to 2009 when she was expecting her son, Riley. "When you're young and seeing this discouragement, you start to think, 'well, maybe these people are right. Maybe I am done.' You kind of get down and out about that. I just had to not think about the negativity, think about myself and what I wanted. And I was like, 'you know what? I'm going to prove everybody else wrong. I'm going to come back better than ever.' And that's what I did."
In fact, Jourdan famously returned to the runway just 10 weeks after giving birth and has been making supermodel history [3] ever since. Read on for more inspiring quotes from Jourdan, including her gushing about her equally famous BFF Karlie Kloss. Then, shop the limited-edition #ActuallySheCan collection from Le Motto, the proceeds of which will benefit female military officers.