8 Models on the Realities of Modeling Today | The Models | Vogue

[Music] [Music] you're free clothes yeah free guys yeah and um just money thrown at you yeah just sit there and smile I wish I saw sexy beautiful it sounds real sexy that's the life right there mm-hmm it's not ours I think there's a misconception where people think that modeling is just about looking beautiful or having a certain look that people like but that's not the reality of things I would hear comments like oh the Amato's you guys have it so easy all you have to do is stand there look pretty no it's really not there's a lot of work and sacrifices that go into this job just like any other job on this it's to be in this industry you have to be a very self-aware have street smarts book smarts know how to run a business because you're a brand you have to be your business manager you have to be your own PR you have to be your therapist you have to be your mom and your dad you have to be your own life coach it's draining it's emotionally physically mentally it's it it's for your well-being in training and that's like the side that people don't get to see you know they only get to see the end result and the glamorous bit of it now in today's day and age there's no time off from being a model you're a model of 24/7 people see you 24/7 even if you go to a bodega Shortino follows you on Instagram well how come you don't look as good as you're doing your pictures people expect you to be perfect 24/7 working in an environment that's all about like beauty and how you look obviously it shapes you a little bit I always thought like oh if I would be a size 2 I would finally be happy because it's what we see all the time my whole life I felt pressured to be a size that I've never been it's not like I'm comparing to a person that I used to be which is also painful for a lot of people to this fantasy idea that suddenly if I was thinner my experiences would be better or my life would be better my relationships might be better I don't think that that voice is so loud today thankfully but for for most of my life it was a very very loud and unfortunately those voices are loud because the experiences as a girl over a sizes 10 who also happens to be brown and strange or whatever it's affirmed in life and that like yeah like your life is a little bit better if you are those things I think we're all just brainwashed by Hollywood and like all the gossip magazines I mean it's hard to to get out of it there's so many labels in our culture like plus-size and straight size and I just don't think it's necessary because you walk outside every day and there's so many people and you're not labeling them in your head I think it can be hard in the industry in that it's just like straight size plus-sized the body positive movement for instance was designated for marginalized bodies to feel seen and validated and that movement has been co-opted by non marginalized bodies to also feel seen but those bodies are seen it's not for a size six pearl to be like show her roles and be like I'm body-positive to no offense in New York it's like if you're skinny like here here I'm Beyonce right my no chest having skinny lanky body as soon as I'm in Nigeria they literally like ah your kids more foods yours or food come come come where's your nosh and already so beauty I think beauty for me is its internal is what you emit to the world subconsciously and non-verbally it's not about the physical to me Vallejo supreme insignificant rebellion Qi I'm in two minds two key appearances do kita preferred as was Creon Suzuki Bozek legit ask wise Phillip ice was a lieutenant - so Corazon you give a surge of energy coming ability me to my sedan through the cage for a pre-k cookie table for opossum uzuki today and through my premonition was a saintly for me Beauty means your sense of self because I mean people have called me ugly and I go to airport right my alias is my little brother so I purposely dress like a boy some people will think on man the next person like oh my gosh you're gorgeous yeah either I look like a little boy from the depths of Harlem or a little posh black woman either people think I'm ugly or cute it was like whatever I think it's beautiful where you are I didn't have access to magazines or TV for the first almost eight years of my life before I moved to Australia and even when I did go to Australia I didn't see a representation of myself I didn't know you stop questioning yourself you know like why and then it that questioning then turns into insecurities and you start to think Oh am I not beautiful enough it's now why this no black girls in the magazine you know and I see little black girls like myself on the TV it's not a nice feeling growing up I'm 26 now so when I was reading magazines they were only like the same kind of girls like white blond tall skinny I was like the opposite so I'm like no so not like no representation at all actually I thought that was the norm but obviously now that changed and now that I know that it can be different I'm like oh wow this should have happened like wait before like wait before yeah I looked up to the woman the strong woman around me and that made me feel like I had a strong foundation and I didn't really look into the media for a representation yeah it's so important to be for people to be represented I'm very lucky in the way that you know I'm a white woman so I did she have grown up seeing people like me all the time and it's really important for you know people like growing up or just people in their day to day life to see someone that looks like them and say that's normal there's someone out there like me all those you know this is being celebrated this is beautiful this is you know I think it's so important for people to see and be recognized that is what makes you feel like you can accomplish just because some of that you say yourself and accomplished what you were interested and the first time I felt represented was when Halima Allen walked the easy show and that is I feel like the most important are in my life where I felt like I can actually pursue modeling in cuz but before that I was just it was lingering around in my head whether I should just pursue her or not but when I did see how they might it made me feel that just because she was doing it I can do it too we're here now you know my little sisters for example they're able to open up a magazine and see me and they automatically see themselves they can turn on the TV and see another black model and they can see themselves and I'm grateful for that my little sister's she's five years old and she was watching me on YouTube and she said she wants to walk the runway and things like that because she saw me wearing those clothes then she saw herself in me so and like if the fashion industry has been impacted your mental health I do [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 9min 13sec (553 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 12 2020