So would modelling be your cup of tea if you were capable of succeeding at it?

Ronaldo7 · 15-02-2004 01:12AM #1

Just wondering...

Kold · 15-02-2004 01:14AM

spose

tman · 15-02-2004 01:50AM

no way, i hate being photographed/filmed.

i'd do it for the money though

Ronaldo7 · 15-02-2004 02:01AM

So even if u looked good and had what they wanted, you still wouldn't because you hate being filmed?

Lump · 15-02-2004 05:53AM

Well if you had the looks and were getting payed shít loads, who wouldnt do it? What a silly question.

John

DriftingRain · 15-02-2004 02:10PM

I agree Lump!

~DR~

Capt'n Midnight · 15-02-2004 02:31PM

wot - and give up working & commuting ?

If you were getting enough to enable you to retire comfortably when your short modeling career was over it would be a no-brainer. (otherwise you would have to get a job in morketing afterwards - and that's a one way ticket to Dantes seventh circle. )

bugler · 15-02-2004 02:58PM

This could well be the world's most inane thread.

Cake Fiend · 15-02-2004 03:54PM

People have fairly rosy ideas of what a modelling career is like - it's not all Paris and Milan with thousands of euros thrown at you. You'd need to be pretty high up the modelling chain to get that kind of money, and obviously enough not everyone gets there. Also, it's not the most satisfying job in the world (unless you're thick of course - quite a regular occurrance in the modelling arena tbh) as models are usually pretty much treated as props. The clothes/product are the focal point of a modelling shoot, not the model.

Not all glitz and glamour.

Silent Grape · 15-02-2004 04:40PM

i did it for 8 months. it sucked

claire h · 15-02-2004 04:49PM

I wouldn't, regardless of the money. I'd hate it too much, it's not worth it.

ToxicPaddy · 16-02-2004 10:18AM

Originally posted by Silent Grape
i did it for 8 months. it sucked

Did you do it full time or part time? What was so bad about it???

I know a few girls who do modelling as a side line.

One does it because its handy money and it helped her when she was going
through college. Now shes doing fairly well for herself and still does it a few hours a
week for the extra money. She said that she neither disliked it or liked it, but it
was fairly easy work as far as all she wasnt mentally drained after doing it but there
were some early starts and late nights..

So as Sico said, its probably not the best line of work to be in if your in it full time but
as a part time thing, Im sure you could do worse.

Tox

yellum · 16-02-2004 10:52AM

I was offered money to be in a Murphys Stout Billboard ad. I politely declined.

Silent Grape · 16-02-2004 12:54PM

it sucked because i was under constant pressure to lose weight, i was 9 stone, within 3 months i was 7 stone. i got really obsessed and it wasnt healthy. and i looked awful!

KlodaX · 16-02-2004 01:05PM

as models are usually pretty much treated as props

I'd say it would suck ... you'd be constantly getting all sorts of make up put on you ... which at some point you will come across something you are allergic to .... you hair constantly died and heated .... you'd become obsessed with your looks .... and constantly surrounded by beautiful people would make you feel ugly ... you'd want to be really sure of yourself to do it ... otherwise you'd be torn apart ....

on the plus side I'd say traveling would be excellent ... and who couldn't do with a little extra attention! .... a career on stage would probably be better

eh .. so I'd say no ... even if I could ... I wouldn't.

well.... suppose depending on the money... would have to be seriously good money though.... which just isn't the case untill you make it really big and travel to the Milan shows for well known designers or become a cover model

ToxicPaddy · 16-02-2004 05:03PM

Originally posted by Silent Grape
it sucked because i was under constant pressure to lose weight, i was 9 stone, within 3 months i was 7 stone. i got really obsessed and it wasnt healthy. and i looked awful!

Ohh ok, didnt know they would expect you to lose weight, thought they just wud
chose a skinnier model..

That kinds sucks alright...

Ronaldo7 · 16-02-2004 05:36PM

Silent Grape thats pretty cool ot have had that experience anyway. What agency was it with?

simu · 16-02-2004 09:31PM

No. I'd never do it. I hate the way people are obsessed with their physical appearance and have no wish to contribute to this.

When I was a teenager, my mother thought I'd be more "confident" if I became a model.:rolleyes: It probably would have driven me crazy in reality!

Ronaldo7 · 16-02-2004 09:35PM

That is true. That is such a bad part of that kind of career. You would constantly be comparing yourself to other people. You say you wouldnt but its just going to happen...

Silent Grape · 16-02-2004 11:22PM

i was with morgan the agency, and 1st option. again, it sucked.
most ppl are false and calculating and .. well...... bitchy. and i got treated like ****, because, ooh! i shud be a size 8. for fecks sakes im 5'11.

ANYWAY

end of rant.

ToxicPaddy · 17-02-2004 10:51AM

Originally posted by Silent Grape
...ooh! i shud be a size 8. for fecks sakes im 5'11...

Feck sake, in a strong wind you'd snap in two.. uugghhh

:rolleyes:

So would modelling be your cup of tea if you were capable of succeeding at it?

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