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- From: egilmour@ac.dal.ca
- Newsgroups: alt.supermodels
- Subject: Re: FROM THE AGENCY BOOK: SOME ELITE MODEL STATS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.165721.9083@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 16:57:21 -0400
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Lines: 55
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- panlilio@acs.ucalgary.ca (Victor P. Panlilio) writes:
-
- >As for the fifteen year old I'm photographing Nov. 22nd,
-
- > Height Bust-Waist-Hips Dress Size
- > Hair Eyes Shoe Size
-
- >(name witheld) 6' 36B-25-36 9
- Brown Brown 10
-
- Aren't you worried about the future of this 15 year old who is
- already much bigger than any of the "bigger" models that you listed
- in your other stats? Between the age of 15 and 20, unless she diets,
- she will go up at least one dress size, and already her dress size
- is bigger than the average top models. Hopefully she won't grow
- anymore, but she probably will - look at what happened to
- Monica Schnarre. As well, I hope no-one encourages her
- to start dieting or whatever as that could have disastrous effects.
- Still, she probably wears the size 9 because she's so tall and not
- because she's big - I know I have to go up a size larger than I
- would normally wear because of my height.
-
- Getting into modelling at fifteen can have good and/or bad affects.
- For one thing modelling can be very hard on a teenager's ego if you
- don't treat her with kid gloves. When I tried to get into modelling
- at 16 my confidence really took a beating. I took the obligatory
- modelling course in my town and everyone thought I would go far -
- but I didn't see it. My instructor would say things like "you
- will never be successful in modelling unless you are 5'10"
- (I was 5'8 1/2" then) or she would say my lips were too thin and
- "a model must have full lips"(now I know this is a bunch of hooey,
- I was under the impression one had to be absolutely perfect to get
- into modelling, but models have an awful lot of tricks to make
- up for their little imperfections, and sometimes so-called imperfections
- can become a models trademark - ie: Cindy's mole).
- Anyway, I guess my instructor thought that in the "real world"
- of modelling people will point out a model's faults all the
- time right in front of the model, therfore I guess she felt
- it gave her the right to belittle a bunch of impressionable teenagers
- with insensitive comments(she even told a 5'10" 13 year old to
- go on a diet). Because of this
- instuctor I totally lost all my confidence and obsessed myself
- with every little flaw I thought I had.
- Needless to say I gave up trying to go anywhere with my modelling,
- and now seven years later I'm too old to try again.
-
- Anyway, the bottom line is be careful with your fifteen year old.
- Perhaps she's perfect and has all the confidence in the world; if that's
- the case there's nothing to worry about. But if she is like most
- teenagers who are very self-conscious, I'd be careful how I treat her
- and pay attention to how other people treat her. There are cruel
- people in the modelling business who just love to say nasty things
- about beautiful people to hurt them. I know it is relevant to modelling
- to have perfect features et al, but some people can be cruel in
- pointing out any little imperfections.
-