Models who weren't "discovered"

Stellar Tenement · 18-02-2011

Meaning they decided they wanted to become a fashion model without being scouted first, and then they pursued it and "made it in".

Sources would be great, especially interviews. I'll go first:

Gwen Lu: http://my.asiancemagazine.com/news/2...o-know-gwen-lu

Quote:

How were you discovered?
I walked in to the one and only model agency that once existed in Penang.

Colette Pechekhonova: http://jacquetta_wheeler.tripod.com/..._new_waifs.htm

Quote:

Colette's "discovery" came through the most modern of means: the Internet. She sent photos of herself via e-mail to the Nathalie agency in Paris.

Tao Okamoto: http://www.adversus.asia/fashion/mod...oto-interview/

Quote:

How did you start modeling?
I sent my pictures to my first agency in Tokyo.

mikel · 18-02-2011

I don't have a source but it is commonl knowledge that Doutzen Kroes sent her own vacation pictures to an agency.

Fascination90 · 18-02-2011

I think Lindsey Wixson also sent pictures to an agency.

m0del · 18-02-2011

Monika Jagaciak wasn't discovered either, right? I remember reading something about her going into a model search in a mall at Poland.

Stellar Tenement · 18-02-2011

This is from post #15 on the first page of Danica Magpantay's thread:

Quote:

How did you get into modeling?
Early this year I decided I wanted to try to get into modeling. I've always wanted to model.

She enrolled in a modeling school. But apparently her mother was already a successful model in their country...

StoneSkipper · 18-02-2011

Is it wrong that when I read the title, all I could think of was Jade Cole, the undiscovered supermodel?

TREVOFASHIONISTO · 18-02-2011

I know Maryna wasn't discovered wither she walked into an agency

Pricciao · 18-02-2011

if getting into a model school means "non-discovered", then Emma Pei, Kiki Kang and Du Juan are on the list.

Legolas · 18-02-2011

Doutzen wasn't "discovered" either.

apriliciate · 18-02-2011

well abbey wasn't "discovered" too, she did Girlfriend CoverGirl model search in Australia.

apriliciate · 18-02-2011

and jessica stam wasn't "discovered" to..... well was she?

Pricciao · 18-02-2011

and Ginta Lapina, she won a model search in Latvia.
Lu Wen, Sigrid Agren, Constance Jablonski were the winners of model search too.

nightclubbing · 18-02-2011

Chanel Iman went straight to an agency too, she wasn't discovered.

Stellar Tenement · 18-02-2011

I thought Abbey was scouted while on a beach with her grandmother? Or something like that... That's the story I seem to recall hearing from her in videos.

Fernini · 18-02-2011

Anna Maria Jagodzinska

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How did you get discovered?
At the age of 14 I sent some of the pictures my mom took of me to a Polish agency.

source: Post #137

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