New York Fashion Week is here and models have opened up about their love/hate relationship with their glamorous yet demanding profession.
Many assume life as a model consists solely of walking down a runway wearing the latest fashions and looking beautiful at all times. However, models who took to the anonymous app, Whisper, confessed that their jobs are not as perfect as they may seem.
Models opened up and confessed some of the self-esteem issues, drug and body image-related pressures and frustrating stereotypes that they deal with on a daily basis.
I've not decided I wanted to be this thin it just happened.' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
walk for exercise because they don't want me to have any muscle definition
at all. ' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
the effort you work so hard on. Yet when you feel insecure many attack you
saying you're fishing for attention.' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
hate it when I'm reminded I'm a model not for my plain face, but for my
thin body.' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
home and be with my family ' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
have unrealistic expectations...I don't always have flawless makeup and
permanent sex hair.' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
hard' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
and friends think models are shallow and self centered. We're not all like
that. ' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
commercials. Not to make you feel like shit so please stop blaming us.' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
models do too. I wish I could change the industry, but it's currently
helping me pay for college so I feel helpless.' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
truth is, I just do it to be around taller people than myself. I hate being
around short people because I feel like a freak. I'm a girl. ' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
decision I ever made. It has destroyed me. ' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
me... ' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
other models are narrower than me. It sucks' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
shoots. I feel like I'm not being taken seriously. ' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
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hair the way you want, plus you work so many hours and never stop until
it's right. ' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
don't- like happiness. ' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />
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I've got a personality if you bother to find out ' style='width:100%;max-width:640px;border:none;' />