Cassi Van Den Dungen

[mariemaud]

According to tFS guidelines, all weight issues have to be discussed in the following specific thread only:
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f6...read-post-1-before-posting-2-a-76030-230.html

Thanks in advance for understanding

 

[lovelyx3]

Model agency elite upset over comments by Cassi Van Den Dungen

August 29, 2009 12:00am

CASSI Van Den Dungen has raised the ire of a top New York model agency after claiming she feared she would be forced to lose a dangerous amount of weight.

Doll Wright of Elite Model Management - the agency Van Den Dungen knocked back after her run on Australia's Next Top Model - said there was no pressure on her to lose weight.

"She is in perfect shape and it's a real shame that she believes that she would be forced to lose weight," said Wright, the director of development at Elite and a guest judge on the program.

Her comments come after Van Den Dungen claimed this week she had knocked back the offer with the agency because she knew "the international market would want me to lose weight" and would force her to drop from size six to size four.

Wright said Van Den Dungen, who chose to opt out of New York to stay in Melbourne with her brickie boyfriend, had the looks to make it to the top, but didn't have the attitude.

"A top model has to have a great body, beautiful face and be professional," Wright said.

"She has a great body and a beautiful face but the way she has been behaving is so negative and a way I've never seen a professional model behave."

news.com.au

 

[Esperanza]

ouch.. they are putting her down abit... i need new cassi pics!!

 

[tahiklalatte]

Wow, that's a quick response from Elite! Poor Cassi

 

[Filipe]

In my opinion that was an offense towards Elite, but I can't be discuss it here because weight talk is not permitted ...

 

[abul]

Wow, that's a quick response from Elite! Poor Cassi

i was shocked too, elite must be checking her thread 24/7 here

 

[Filipe]

^ They don't need to check her thread here to know that ...

 

[abul]

calm down, i was jk

 

[tahiklalatte]

^

 

[mike7791]

sorry. but she is healthy.
she would still be successful without Elite.

 

[wednesdays child]

from what i have seen, elite had a lucky escape

 

[Trista]

sorry. but she is healthy.
she would still be successful without Elite.

A-men. She'll be more successful not being tied down to them.

 

[Bamhutt]

This healthy role model act is simply that, an ACT! It's just another one of her silly excuses, we all know the reason why she doesn't want to go overseas. I love Cassi as a model, but with all her excuses... I just don't care about her anymore. If she really is so worried about a healthy lifestyle, she needs to give up smoking first.

 

[abul]

yes, absolutely! just another excuse,
i'm kinda starting to forget about her too...

 

[soymilkfreak]

I feel like its another excuse...
first its feeling homesick, then Brad & getting married, then maturity, and now THIS?
Oh dear lord, she has more issues than Vogue.

 

[Street_a_Licious]

oh man...

she fits perfectly into sample sizes already. it's really like on the show, excuse after excuse.

 

[Fontenrose]

Everything she has said are good reasons not to leave the most beautiful city in the world. How many reasons does she need?

 

[Street_a_Licious]

there's more where that came from when you put her under pressure

 

[peachescream]

There's a spread about her in this week's Grazia, shooting the campaign for Portmans. The model director on set from Europe says that he has to get her overseas as soon as possible, everyone seems to be enamoured with her. I hope she stops behaving like this so that people continue to love her. Also Claudia Navone from Harpers got her the job, She styles for Portmans and she must really love Cassi. I'm glad she has someone in her corner, i hope she manages to talk some sense into her!

 

[lovelyx3]

What Cassi did next

The Australia’s Next Top Model finalist models the new Portmans collection. Clare Maclean goes behind the scenes

"Have you walked past a Portmans recently? You have to go in and have a look," says the label’s creative director, Nikki Hillier. The dynamic Brit, who’s worked for Topshop and Marks & Spencer, is in the throes of discussing her current passion – the reinvigoration of the iconic Aussie label that has been around since the 40s. It’s impossible not to get caught up in her enthusiasm, especially once you’ve had a look at the slick new collection she and designer director Leanne Follett have put together.

"We dug through the archives and discovered this wonderful tailoring heritage and a sexy warm spirit that’s distinctively Australian," explains Hillier of the new direction.

"And that’s the frame we are using to interpret all the hottest catwalk trends of the season."

Now she’s called in the big guns for their lookbook to kick that direction into high gear, including Balenciaga’s movement coach and casting director extraordinaire, Nikola Koke. And giving her all in front of the lens is ANTM finalist Cassi Van Den Dungen.

"Portmans has a long tradition of working with up-and-coming models such as Miranda Kerr, so we thought Cassi would be perfect," explains Hillier of the rising star, who was recommended to her by long-time friend and ANTM guest judge Claudia Navone, fashion director for Harper’s Bazaar. "But she’s still very young and inexperienced so I thought we should have a day which was all about arming her with the tools she needs to reach her potential.” Call it a mini model makeover…

grazia.ninemsn.com.au