"being dissected and criticized for breakfast is completely earth shattering when you're fifteen"

Jesse Charger · Feb 20, 2011

Supermodel Paulina Porizkova describes the difficulty of modeling on the female psyche.

While the mental aspect of being dissected and criticized for breakfast lunch and dinner may be quite painful at thirty, it is completely earth shattering when you're fifteen.

Imagine being put in front of the class by the blackboard and then systematically destroyed from top to toe by a bunch of teachers gathered for that very purpose.

Then you're failed and sent home, told to find another school, all because your nose has a slight bump, your ears stick out and your knees are fat. Your identity becomes a chorus of other people's complaints.

If every time you go to work you're told your waist is too fat, you will come to believe it even if your waist is 20 inches. After all, your livelihood depends on what other people think of your looks. Sexual harassment is called "compliments" and you come to believe that unless you're constantly propositioned, you must be getting ugly.

In your early twenties, it is communally understood you're getting old and if you haven't made it yet and met your special bad-boy rockstar/actor/, you will be conscripted to modeling limbo. And I'm talking the biblical, not the musical one. The one in which most models must, at the advanced age of twenty-plus, be relegated to model in cheap adds for medical insurance companies, and if they get to be featured on a cover, it's one for ironing boards.

By thirty, they must accept defeat, the death of their dreams, and the slow dissolution into normal women/tallish soccer moms.

And you thought approaching women was pressure!

Source: Paulina Porizkova: Modeling Is A Great Job And A Sh*tty Career

TequilaMan · Feb 22, 2011

I read her article, Jess.
"Despite Tyra Banks' insistence that a girl can somehow "deserve" a top model spot by "by learning, by improving, by wanting it most," this is in fact complete bullshit. The only thing that truly matters is what the girl looks like and if she is in the right place at the right time".
Tyra does a very good job of dissecting women.

TM

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