From: egilmour@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.supermodels
Subject: Re:  FROM THE AGENCY BOOK:  SOME ELITE MODEL STATS
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:57:21 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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. 
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