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Success Quote by Kiana Tom

"I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do"

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Gratitude is doing double duty here: it’s a family thank-you, and it’s a résumé. Kiana Tom frames her drive as inherited discipline rather than self-mythologized ambition, a savvy move for a model whose public image can be flattened into looks and luck. By crediting her parents with “active,” “all sports,” and “staying healthy,” she recodes the glamorous body as an earned outcome - trained, maintained, and goal-directed - instead of a genetic accident or a cosmetic project.

The phrasing is deliberately practical. “Focused” and “setting goals” borrows the language of athletics and self-improvement culture, the kind that travels well across fitness TV, brand partnerships, and motivational profiles. It also quietly dodges the messier truth that modeling is an industry of gatekeeping, timing, and market taste. If the world won’t admit how arbitrary the ladder can be, you at least claim the parts you can control: habits, training, mental discipline.

There’s subtext, too, about respectability. “Whatever I do” expands her identity beyond modeling, hinting at longevity and versatility - a person with a work ethic, not just a face. That matters in a culture that alternates between idolizing and dismissing women whose careers are image-based. The intent is to be read as credible: health as character, sports as proof, parents as origin story. It’s the aspirational narrative of the era’s fitness-boom celebrity - wholesome, controlled, and designed to feel replicable, even if the system isn’t.

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Tom, Kiana. (n.d.). I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-my-parents-to-thank-for-that-they-raised-73867/

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Tom, Kiana. "I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-my-parents-to-thank-for-that-they-raised-73867/.

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"I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-my-parents-to-thank-for-that-they-raised-73867/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Kiana Tom (born March 14, 1965) is a Model from USA.

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