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Parenting & Family Quote by Rachel Hunter

"I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up"

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A supermodel calling herself "very girly" is less confession than credential. Rachel Hunter is performing a kind of strategic self-definition: a reassuring, lifestyle-friendly femininity that reads as approachable rather than rarefied. In an industry that sells aspiration, "girly" functions like a brand adjective - softening the distance between the woman on the billboard and the woman in the mirror. It invites identification, not awe.

The list is doing the heavy lifting. Diets and exercise are coded as "self-care", but they're also the quiet machinery of modeling - discipline, surveillance, maintenance - reframed as chatty, everyday interests. Kids introduces a second kind of legitimacy: not just beauty, but domestic relevance. Make-up closes the circle, pointing to femininity as both ritual and product category. The sentence is basically a shopping map, a set of topics that slot neatly into magazines, daytime TV, and ad campaigns.

The subtext is defensive in a way that feels era-specific. For women whose public value is tied to appearance, declaring "I'm girly" can preempt suspicion: that you're intimidating, high-maintenance, or trying to compete in "serious" terrain. It's a wink at stereotype that also keeps you safely inside it. There's agency here, but it's the agency of navigating a narrow hallway - choosing which doors to open without pretending the building isn't designed for you already.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hunter, Rachel. (2026, January 16). I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-very-girly-i-love-to-talk-about-diets-exercise-94453/

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Hunter, Rachel. "I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-very-girly-i-love-to-talk-about-diets-exercise-94453/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-very-girly-i-love-to-talk-about-diets-exercise-94453/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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Rachel Hunter (born September 9, 1969) is a Model from New Zealand.

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