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Motherhood Quote by Sophia Bush

"Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes"

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“Fashion is in my blood” isn’t a claim to aristocracy so much as an origin story pitched in the language of inevitability. Sophia Bush frames style not as a hobby she picked up, but as a lineage she inherited, which matters for an actress whose public identity is partly built in photographs: red carpets, press tours, street-style candids. The line tries to make all that spectacle feel less like branding and more like biography.

The detail that sells it is the sound: “clacking around the house.” You can hear the heels, picture the wobble, the delighted trespass of a kid borrowing adulthood for a few steps. That verb does double duty. It’s playful and domestic, but it also hints at performance. Acting begins as mimicry; fashion begins as dress-up. Bush collapses the two into one childhood scene where femininity is learned not through lecture, but through movement, rhythm, and trying on.

The mother’s shoes matter, too. This isn’t “I was born stylish,” it’s “I was raised around a woman whose style I admired.” There’s affection and a quiet nod to permission: fashion as something passed down, not policed. In a culture that alternates between trivializing women’s interest in clothes and demanding they look effortless, the quote is a defense mechanism: if it’s in your blood, it can’t be vain. It’s craft, memory, and identity, clicking across the floor before it ever hits a camera flash.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bush, Sophia. (2026, January 16). Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/fashion-is-in-my-blood-growing-up-i-was-always-99059/

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Bush, Sophia. "Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/fashion-is-in-my-blood-growing-up-i-was-always-99059/.

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"Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/fashion-is-in-my-blood-growing-up-i-was-always-99059/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Sophia Bush (born July 8, 1982) is a Actress from USA.

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