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Daily Inspiration Quote by Kelly Brook

"It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts"

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Disgust is doing the heavy lifting here, and that is exactly the point. When Kelly Brook says it "makes my skin crawl", she turns the listener's body into the argument: you don't need a policy brief on the exotic leather trade if you can be made to feel it under your own skin. It's a savvy rhetorical move from a model, someone whose public image is literally built on surfaces. She flips that economy of surfaces back onto fashion itself, implying that what looks sleek in a shop window is, upstream, something ugly enough to trigger a physical recoil.

The list - snakes, lizards, alligators, "other exotic creatures" - widens the frame beyond one photogenic victim. "Exotic" is doing double duty: it's the luxury industry's marketing word and, in her mouth, a quiet indictment of how distance makes violence easier to ignore. These animals aren't just killed; they're "raised and killed", a phrasing that spotlights industrial process rather than isolated cruelty, and pries apart the comforting myth of the accidental byproduct.

"Boots, bags and belts" lands like a receipt: small, everyday items that suddenly read as complicity. Brook isn't asking for an abstract moral upgrade; she's attaching a vivid cost to routine consumption. Coming from a fashion-adjacent pop figure, the subtext is also self-reflexive: an insider signaling that glamour has a supply chain, and the supply chain has blood on it. The intent is less to debate than to contaminate the desirability of the product with the imagery it depends on us not picturing.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Brook, Kelly. (2026, January 16). It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-makes-my-skin-crawl-to-think-about-the-violent-130346/

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Brook, Kelly. "It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-makes-my-skin-crawl-to-think-about-the-violent-130346/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-makes-my-skin-crawl-to-think-about-the-violent-130346/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Kelly Brook (born November 23, 1979) is a Model from England.

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