Victoria Secret model Cameron Russell statement delivered during her talk at a TED conference last October.

The model that has graced the covers of high fashion magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and W Magazine as well modeling for Calvin Klein, Victoria's Secret and Ralph Lauren discussed about how modeling "isn't a career path." Since then the video garnered more than 1.3 million hits, four times the number of viewers who clicked on Colin Powell's.

"Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you grow up," said Russell in remarks at a TED conference.

Russell who reportedly studied economics and political science at Columbia University shared that she is not surprised that her talk sparked so much attention.

"The talk itself is nothing groundbreaking. It's a couple of stories and observations about working as a model for the last decade," she said. "Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?"

She added, "I won a genetic lottery."

Russell joined the TED conference, an annual event that showcases "ideas worth spreading" on a wide range of topics, as she puts it to "tell a simple story."

"I hoped telling a simple story - where my only qualification was life experience (not a degree, award, successful business or book) - could encourage those of us who make media to elevate other personal narratives: the stories of someone like Trayvon Martin, the undocumented worker, the candidate without money for press," she wrote.