The Naked Truth About Modeling

Why are minors stripping in front of the camera anyway. What kind of parent would allow their 14 year old daughter to go on her own to sell her body. Thank God this doesn't exist in our society where women are not portrayed as sex objects.

Our daughter was signed with a prominent agency when she was 16. Since she's 6 ft tall she ended up on the runway and was quite popular, however, she soon found the lifestyle, drug use and customs prevalent in the industry left her cold. We were lucky she made the decision to come home on her own and before something happened to her; it was her dream and she lived it for a little while but it soon lost all of it's luster for her. She went back to school and is now married with 2 kids.

Is this a surprise to anyone? Models are in the business of selling their bodies. Their "talent" is a nice rack and a tight behind. When you market yoruself as meat you are likely to get treated that way. It's wrong, and it should be stopped, but that's what happens in a male-dominated society that objectifies and degrades women on a daily basis.

Well, I didn't realize that the women are probably trying to look like / compete with 14 and 15 year olds. And that is why they are so thin. So is that the standard of beauty. That needs to change. Why are kid-like qualities appealing to the adult man?

We have never had to worry about this stuff, all the girls in our family are skinny-minis, but the "tall" one is 5 feet 3. That cut all of us out of that pageant junk, also. Some friends are tall and beautiful, but it would almost seem an insult to suggest modeling as a career. Stick with engineering or medicine as a career.

Every aspiring model should read this and then perhaps the willing young hoards of wannabe participants would dry up.
People will rightly condemn all of this, but will then readily look at the ads and exploitations with eyes wide opened in the privacy of their own homes. Only when the public demands that this stop (and that would never happen) is there any reigning in this abusive industry. As a former N.Y. based fashion photographer myself who had worked in the industry in the 80's-90's, I had to get out of it for this very reason. I could not condone these situations any longer.

I was one of these young girls and when I realized how perverted the modeling world was, I called it quit ! Some of the people working there espcially photographers as well as designers are true child molesters. Disgusting world, and I would not recommend it to anyone.