I always ask the question – do you think modeling is a luxury?
Yes absolutely. It’s one of the biggest luxuries. Yes it’s hard work, but when I was twenty or nineteen I worked in a bar or doing events, I was working 7 days a week, 15 hours a day. Well, you would never do that, even during fashion week you’re not standing on your legs for fifteen hours a day. So there are worse jobs.
So you would say you’re passionate about modeling?
I am and I really appreciate it. It’s a great job and there’s lots of travel. It’s an amazing way to travel. And from every trip I do for work, I take a little and try to stay for a couple extra days.
Where is your favorite place that you’ve been so far?
I moved to Tasmania for a little bit and it is absolutely breathtaking– the nature and you have a little city and fresh air and amazing ocean. I was living there, I met my boyfriend at the moment there. At the time I wasn’t allowed to work, I was fighting for my work visa, so I helped my boyfriend with his career. It’s one of my favorite places.
Do you go back?
Yep, last I was there was two weeks ago.
Are you still getting excited about bookings?
Yes. This job is 24/7 and basically becomes your life. So yeah when everything goes well it makes me excited.
What about things that go not the way you imagined?
Yeah it’s a bit tough sometimes, it’s a tough world.
Does it help that you’re now 27 and a bit more secure?
Yes, but on the other side it’s very easy to overthink it. When I was young everything would just flow and flow and now I’m starting to think about how does this industry work? What can you change? But you can’t overthink this industry.
What is your method to navigating at the moment?
I’m just going to let it all go. I’m not going to try to control it, because you can’t.
Is that like your personality?
Yeah, naturally I’m really positive.
Have you been able to maintain that so far?
There’s always this moment during fashion week when you think, “Oh my god, what the hell am I doing? I got cancelled for this…” and then something else gets booked and you’re really happy. You go through all these moods. This time, before I started I was like I’ll just see where it goes, whatever happens–happens. You can’t control it. Go to the clients, be nice, be the person you are.
How do you balance your work and non-work life? Is it easy to balance? Is traveling part of that?
Yeah, I make time. My free time is basically seeing friends and family and traveling. Doing little trips. And I’m still part of the organizing of a festival where I’m still going each year. It’s [called] Madness. It’s a festival on the beach, a skate, surf and outdoor music festival. I’m still in that, so spending time on that. I build it all up.
Do you do any of those things?
Surf. I don’t skate, I wish I could, I’m so afraid. It’s the same with a massive wave or reef with surfing.
So how about a favorite or memorable shoot or a horror story?
Surely if I say now then I’ll think later, “Oh that one was even better!” Always location shoots, because I love shooting on location and I really like shooting with Rory Payne, I’ve shot with him in Gran Canaria. The whole team had such a good connection and we all stayed an extra day. Actually, I had an amazing shoot last week with [not out yet] in Stockholm and I stayed an extra day as well and we all went to the theme park at night. it’s in the middle of the city–rollercoasters, some drinks, and then went out. Also it was with half of a Dutch team, which never happens. It was funny to be able to speak my own language for a change, because I’ve never get that.
So since you’re traveling a lot where are most of your friends based?
That’s always tough. Sometimes I’m really confused at what is home, because I think home is where your friends and your loved ones are. I’ve got my very close friends in Holland and a couple in Australia. I find that it’s hard to say. I think Holland, I have got my closest friends from when I was young.
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