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Supermodel Regrets Saying She Wouldn’t ‘Get Out of Bed for Less Than $10,000’

“I don’t want to be known for that,” supermodel Linda Evangelista said of her infamous words. “I’ve done so much more than just that quote but it’s really sticking.”

When supermodel Linda Evangelista told Vogue in 1990 that she wouldn’t “get out of bed for less than $10,000,” it seemed to sum up the glamorous insanity of the world of 90s’ fashion—and the then all-conquering power of supermodels. However, now she regrets ever saying it. “I had no idea that so much attention would be brought to it,” Evangelista said in the forthcoming Disney+ documentary series In Vogue: The 90s. “I don’t want to be known for that. I’ve done so much more than just that quote but it’s really sticking.” Last year, Evangelista told Apple TV’s The Super Models that the quote “makes her crazy…I’m not the same person I was 30 years ago. I shouldn’t have said that.” At the time, Vogue editor Anna Wintour said she was “embarrassed” for Evangelista, and wanted to strike the quote from the article. But interviewer Jonathan Van Meter convinced her to keep it in. “I was like, you cannot cut this line. I just knew instinctively that it would be the quote heard around the world,” he said in the documentary, which will be released Friday, Sept. 13.