Model Cheyenne Tozzi reflects on her incredible career and iconic Harper’s Bazaar cover

Aussie mannequin Cheyenne Tozzi was simply 13 years previous when she graced the cover of Harper’s Bazaar and was dubbed ”the following Elle Macpherson”.

Now Tozzi, 34, has mirrored on her incredible career and her meteoric rise to fame since that Harper’s Bazaar photoshoot, candidly admitted to 9Honey that being known as the following Macpherson “was hard to live up to”.

Tozzi, who lately grew to become the brand new face of Jets Swimwear, additionally mirrored on her robust bond with Macpherson, 59, who’s godmother to her daughter Dahlia De La Lune.

“It’s nice to have that still [the cover]. The title was hard to live up to – ‘the next Elle Macpherson,'” Tozzi mirrored.

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Speaking about Macpherson, one in all Australia’s prime modelling exports, she added: “She’s a legend. Elle, I would call her when I was having a shocker like back in the day. She’s that mother figure on the road, I guess, when I didn’t want to bother my mum.”

“I ask her, ‘Should I give Dahlia this?’ She’s always teaching me how to do things and I have a great respect for Elle and she is a wonderful person and her career is ridiculous [ridiculously successful],” she stated.

Following the now-iconic cover shoot, Cronulla-born Tozzi went on to turn into a family identify within the trade, residing in New York and later showing on the cover of Vogue and French Madame Figaro journal.

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She’s even fashioned a band, Van Hoorn, and been a mentor on Australia’s Next Top Model and The Face Australia, alongside supermodel Naomi Campbell.

But Tozzi stated regardless of her success, modelling mainly fell in her lap, as her mom and aunts had been fashions again within the day. 

Before the Harper’s cover, Tozzi stated she appeared in a Country Road marketing campaign on the age of 4 and as soon as appeared in a Vogue photoshoot with Sarah Murdoch when she was only a child.

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“I didn’t choose to be a model, my aunts and mum were models and it worked out that way. Mum was already around fashion industry people and they were like, ‘can we use your kid for this?’ And mum was like, ‘sure,'” Tozzi defined with amusing.

“I did the Country Road campaign when I was four, I did Vogue with Sarah Murdoch. I was sitting under her dress and it was a bridal issue.”

“But I was so lucky to travel around the world and have success and I worked super hard,” she stated of her later years.

She added that she even nonetheless retains involved with a number of the fashions she mentored on The Face and Australia’s Next Top Model.

“I reach out to make sure they’re all OK. One of the girls walked for Saint Laurent. So I’m so happy, I really like to be someone’s stepping stone to their dream. I don’t want to leave then out in the cold now, like, ‘Your show is done!’

“Modelling is a really robust world. And with social media, the panorama has modified with my form of period of modelling you possibly can say, nevertheless it’s a ravishing existence and a pleasant job to have.”

About working with iconic supermodel Naomi Campbell, 53, Tozzi said the British model just has a ‘star quality’ and presence.

“She is that one that calls for respect and simply has that star high quality, like holy s–t she is within the room and is light. She’s robust but in addition light,” Tozzi defined.

Tozzi defined she lately reached out to her buddy after seeing her storm the Dolce & Gabbana runway at Milan Fashion Week.

Seeing how good she seems to be, she stated: “I’m like, ‘Are you joking?'”

“I wrote to her the opposite day, like, ‘How are the kiddos, you are trying previous and weathered you bitch!'” she joked.

In current years, Sydney-based Tozzi has thrown herself into motherhood and charity work and now has some initiatives within the works.

Tozzi is a proud ambassador for the not-for-profit organisation, For You Haiti, and is hoping to lift cash for a hurricane-proof medical clinic at La Gonave.

“That’s my nature [to help people], I’m continually round individuals, I’ve at all times been a individuals individual, you journey the world and the poverty you see and how a lot we accumulate and we take with no consideration what we’ve got right here,” she explained.

“I strive and instill it in my daughter that you simply’re not the one individual on earth. My mum at all times stated, ‘it is good to be essential, however extra essential to be good.'”

About motherhood, she stated daughter Dahlia, 5, is a ”sweetheart” and stated being a mum is ”a visit and a half”.

“She’s extraordinarily sensible and simply at peace with herself, you’ll be able to inform she’s a contented child. I do not suppose there is a rule guide [for motherhood] and every baby is completely different. Life is fairly grim on the outskirts, so I’d prefer to maintain the unicorns alive so long as I can and let her do her,” Tozzi said.

“My life modified from being all about me and doing what I need on a regular basis, it was the proper tine to have her be a part of me on my little voyage,” she said about her daughter’s 2018 birth.

“I let her make selections… she’s an exquisite child.”

Tozzi, despite her success and years in the public eye, is as grounded and down-to-earth as ever.

“For me, I haven’t got a why to be an arsehole or to suppose I’m higher than everyone else, I do not see myself as being aside from a human, simply me and I can not be anybody else,” she explained.

She also gave fans some life advice, telling them not to sweat the small stuff as there’s bigger problems in the world.

“Find the sundown in every single day and look as much as the sky and discover somewhat piece of your self and bear in mind, this too shall go for those who’re having a s–t day.”