this is our manager, ken. he’s camera shy–kind of ironic for someone in the modeling industry!
the casting: scene one
most days our castings (model speak for auditions) would run late into the night…this vid will take you into the first few seconds of one of those castings, where we encounter a manager and model from another agency. the other model is kinda nice, but kinda snobby too.
these aren’t my lips
you can see in this close up that the make-up artist painted my upper lip way bigger than it is in real life.
i’m not proud of it, but i will admit it here that ever since an agent told me my upper lip was too thin i’ve fantasized about having lips like Angelina Joline.
i even thought about plastic surgery but would have never had the guts to go through with it cuz my friends back home would have been like, WTF jackie!
but, anyway, every time a make-up artist painted my lips bigger than they really were (which happened a lot), i felt kind of bad that they weren’t that way naturally.
hair show
no, this photo was not taken at an elaborate Halloween party (though i swear they used cobwebbing on the girl’s hair, far left). actually, this was a hair show (and my first sort-of- real runway experience–but more on that later).
the whole thing was pretty exciting–despite the 50 lbs of coiled nylon bobby pinned into my scalp–Ouch! I got serious neck strain from it.
modeling can actually be pretty painful at times.
skinny jeans and a kimono
because what trip to japan is complete without a photo of you and a lady in a kimono (and a sumo wrestler but i already took care of that)?
actually, what stands out for me most from this pic is that those jeans I’m wearing were my skinny jeans when i first arrived in tokyo. and here, about two months later, they look totally baggy on me. i guess that’s why my mom totally freaked out when i got home!
i guess that’s what two months of tape measures does to you…
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japanese graffiti
i have no idea what the graffiti in this vid says, but it looks cool, anyway–and is a lot better than the stuff sprayed on the abandoned gas station in my home town.
i’ve never even gone snorkling
for the record (since the number one question people ask me when they find out about my modeling is whether i get to keep the clothes) i’ve only ever once been given a freebie (okay, besides g-strings because thankfully they don’t reuse those) was for this wet suit catalogue.
the client gave me that pink one pictured above at the end of the day–and the only reason they did, i’m pretty sure, was because they felt bad about the wetsuit almost killing me! (but that’s another story).
anyway, i don’t dive so i gave it to my friend. she used it for teaching swimming lessons in a freezing cold lake.
