Gonna re-post this discussion as a status, cos I am genuinely interested for feedback. Not just about me, but in general. This is not in any way intended to be offensive to anyone, I love and appreciate beautiful women of all shapes and sizes :) Ive been modelling quite a while and I used to say I was a curvy model, but the definition of curvy seems to be changing these days... I AM curvy, or voluptuous or whatever, well I am next to a standard bikini-model anyway, but now when you look at these curvy model magazines, or answer job ads looking for curvy models, etc... the girls they pick are really big, like really huge bottoms and huge thighs, which is fine, I like that look, but not one of those curvy girl things has ever hired me the last few years. And although none of them say it, those curvy girl jobs, and publications always seem to be more than 90% black girls and latina girls, so do they just subtly mean that they are really a magazine / job for black or dark skinned chicks but they dont wanna say that because it seems racist?? Or are white girls just not considered curvy enough? And if Im not curvy cos of my butt... well I dont feel like I can say athletic cos I am not super-ripped like a fitness model and those athletic model things are always fitness jobs with girls who have washboard stomachs and bulging biceps. I have no idea how to categorize myself officially any more. lol. I thought for a while that thick was gonna work, but now it seems that thick also means huge curves. Like girls that have a 26 waist and 42 hips. So where do I stand? lol Its also curious how everything seems to be so categorized.... even in so called alternative modelling it seems like they only want girls who have a REALLY strong look, like facial piercings and a mohawk, because everyone has tattoos, anyone can get a few tattoos, its not that alternative... although of course almost all mainstream model publications and work, STILL wont accept models that have anything more than (maybe) a small tattoo... even though everything is so airbrushed these days anyway that airbrushing out some tattoos would hardly be any different anyway! And as for tattoo modelling, it goes in fashions as much as anything else, and right now you pretty much have to be petite and emo-looking with full tattoo sleeves, bottle-black hair and too much eye-liner to get the prestige jobs. As my husband remarked, it seems like even the pin up look has become kind of a uniform of how you have to dress and how you have to do your hair and what shape you have to be. I am very lucky that I do get modelling work and I am perfectly happy with what I do. But it bugs me that I have always been unable to rise to a higher or more prestigious level, in spite of experience, and that the reason for that is nothing to do with my ability as a model, or even my looks as such.... its just because I dont neatly fit into some category of what our customers want :| I guess if it is modelling work that relates to a specific product its fair enough that the product-maker may have a particular look in mind to represent their product - but if its just a general hot girl thing, whether its for publication, for a modelling job, or a pageant or whatever, then why, oh why, does hot girl always have to be defined by specifics?
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 01:32:47 +0000
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