Archive for July, 2009

Nudity as an Art or a Selling Point?
July 28, 2009

Ahhhhh the controversial word…nudity. Some people love it and some people don’t. Some people are okay with it and some people don’t care. But in the modeling world, it seems to be a big dilemma. I am representing, of course, the group of people out there who are just plain uncomfortable being completely or partially nude [...]

A Guide to Being Healthy in the Modeling World
July 27, 2009

I was finally at a point just a few months ago where I felt I was really ready to take modeling seriously. I mentally thought I was all there but during my little break, for which I will identify as my “carne asada fries detour”, I gained a good amount of weight. All of a sudden [...]

Questioning your motives to model?
July 26, 2009

The other day I began searching through blogs on various websites and I found several posts from girls struggling with anorexia, bulimia, and other body image issues. I couldn’t help but ask myself, do they really want help? A lot of them were complaining about how fat they think they are and the guilt they [...]

An insider’s look into mainstream “modeling”
July 25, 2009

*Mainstream “modeling” is a term I created to express this emergence of people wanting to model in the fashion industry which has gained extreme popularity over the last several years. When did society become so media-obsessed? All over TV, everyone is obsessed with fashion, fame, attention; being a part of this group has become such a [...]

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