She was on a visit to India to promote South African tourism. And for someone who loves travelling herself, Miss South Africa 2010 Nicole Flint is overwhelmed by how much her own culture has in common with India.
In a quick chat with rediff, right before she flew off to Delhi for a road show, she spoke about herself, her learning experiences and what it has meant to be part of the fashion industry.
The leggy looker, who started out in the fashion industry really young, says that the most important thing for anyone is to stay true to themselves.
"There might be a lot of people who want to get you to do something that you don't feel comfortable with -- and it is important that you stick to your ground and be firm," she says. "For me, modelling is about having fun, taking up assignments that I enjoy. And it is not about trying to change yourself to become someone else for anybody else's sake," she says.
Flint, who has studied radio and television also plans to earn a degree in business administration from March this year.
Not surprisingly, she's never taken modelling as a pressurising career. Instead, she does it for the love of it and plans to stay around only for as long as she wishes.
Since she was also studying at the time when she began to work, the beauty says that she always had something else to pursue alongside modelling. "That's helped me to only do the work that I like -- and the work that I enjoy."
And now that she hopes to go back to studying, Flint is quite confident that she will always be left with the option at some later stage to start her own enterprise.
Information source- http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-glamour-interview-with-miss-south-africa-nicole-flint/20110210.htm
