Happiness Quote by Kiana Tom

A model saying her goals are to be "happy, healthy and ... surrounded by loved ones" reads like a soft-focus antidote to the job description people project onto her: image, ambition, relentless self-optimization. Kiana Tom came up in a late-90s/early-2000s media ecosystem that packaged women as aspirational surfaces while selling viewers the idea that success meant attention, thinness, and visibility. This line quietly refuses that scoreboard. It’s not anti-career, it’s anti-spectacle: the metrics she chooses can’t be audited by tabloids or reduced to a highlight reel.

The phrasing is intentionally plain, almost stubbornly unglamorous. "Personal goals" signals a boundary: you don’t get to set these for me. "Happy" is broad enough to dodge scrutiny; it’s a feeling, not a deliverable. "Healthy" is the only term with a whiff of discipline, but it’s framed as wellbeing rather than punishment - notable in an industry where health gets conflated with compliance. Then the kicker: "surrounded by loved ones" shifts the center of gravity from the camera to the room. It implies privacy, continuity, and belonging, values that don’t trend but do last.

The subtext is a recalibration of what counts as winning. Coming from someone whose profession is literally being looked at, the emphasis on being with people who look back with care carries bite. It’s a public statement that the real life isn’t the public life - and that, in a culture addicted to performance, can be the most radical flex available.