p.s. i also noticed they wrote a little article about her:
it says:
In less than six months model Amanda Laine has gone from shooting hoops to shooting major fashion magazine spreads.
And she's only 16 years old.
The homegrown beauty has ascended the gramine ranks with atypical momentum. She was discovered on the basketball court in Orillia, Ont. last November and by february, she not only walked the runway for Balenciaga, Marni, Dries Van Noten, and Prada, she also opened Miu Miu abd Alexander McQueen shows and closed Louis Vuitton.
Laine is also the winner of V magazine's V A Model search, which is considered a far better predictor of a model's career than mainstream TV competitions. V magazine is the more accessible offspring of Visionaire, a highbrow, limited edition quarterly.
Speaking of brows, Laine's are especially striking. Word has it iternational makeup artist Pat McGrath pronounced them the "best in the world".
The 10th grader from Patrick Fogarty high school seems unaffected by all the attention.
Laine is a hardcore athlete who plays volleyball, lacrosse, and hockey, inaddition to b-ball. Her four years as a gymnast and nine years as a dancer meant that she walked like a pro the first time she put heels on her size eight feet. "All she had was one walking lesson and one photoshoot and then she was off to New York," says Elmer Olsen, her Canadian agent. "And everyone falls in love with her because she's so friendly."
She initially kept mum to friends about modelling, "if it didn't work out, I didn't want to be the kid who seemed like she lied."
But it is working out, so much so that her parents, who accompany her everywhere, had to divvy up time away from their own jobs. "It's been a bit of a whirlwind," says dad Tim, a firefighter.
Laine has resisted the allure of expensive designer duds, in part because Orillia is not exactly Canada's fashion capital. "I'm still growning," she adds, her legs as long and lean as bamboo rods. "I don't want to buy a $300 shirt and not fit into it in three years."
Karma!