Entry 2
Disclaimer: the following events are from my memory, therefore details could be slightly off. Do not come for me.
I hope you guessed it right.
I started modelling a little bit in high school, just some creative shoots here and there. My uncle had worked in advertising and had some connections.
The spring before I finished high school, I had signed with my mother agency. Anita Norris Models (2014).
I remember the day like it was yesterday.
I had scheduled to go to a casting call for new faces. One Thursday after school, my best friend at the time drove me to the agency. We were a half an hour early mainly because my friend was speeding on the highway. I am glad we arrived to our destination. No driver should ever be going 150 on a highway, especially in this small can (yes can).
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The feeling of the next few hours for me is pure bliss. For most of my life I never felt like I truly belonged anywhere. And now thinking back on it, it might have been part of the agency’s selling tactic. I felt special.
(The fact that I felt special for some one telling me I was extremely beautiful and could maybe make a career out of it, is low key embarrassing).
Basically when you go to meet with an agency, they will measure your height, bust, waist, and hips, they will also take snaps of you (close up, full body and then angles), and they will take a video of you introducing yourself. The agency I was with also pitched a course called model 101, for $1700 cdn.
After the interview, an agent usually gives a speech and shows a video about the agency. There is an unsaid “we will call you vibe.”
The founder of the Agency pulls me into her office and says “I can send you to China by the end of this year.” I am 18 at the time, and am looking at any possibility to get out of the small rural area I have lived in for my whole life. College at the time was not worth the money, the debt, or the stress; especially, when I had no idea what the fuck I wanted.
The only catch to this phrase was that I had to loose weight. My waist was a 26 inches and had to shrink to 24 inches, and my hips were 35 inches and had to shrink an inch.
After this I went to Harvey’s and got a cheese burger with onion rings.
This night changed my life forever, suddenly I had a future of some type.
