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She's therenothing new on erin?
she is so beautiful1!!! her eyes are amazing!
btw...what are her agencies?I tried to look on select and I didnt find her...![]()
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.ukFrom the classroom to the catwalk for Erin, 15
When Marjorie Fee took two of her daughters to the Clothes Show Live for a birthday treat, little did she know it could be the start of a modelling career for one of them. Catherine Scott spoke to Marjorie and Erin Fee.
ERIN Fee is like any 15-year-old.
She is studying for her GCSEs where she is predicted to get the top grades, she likes to be with her friends and plays netball for her school, Notre Dame High, in her home city of Sheffield.
Like her friends, she loves to watch TV, especially Five's Make me a Supermodel.
But for Erin, the show has a different fascination: she is already living the life, rubbing shoulders with some of the country's top models.
Erin was "spotted" by model agency Select Model Management during her birthday treat, a trip to the Clothes Show Live at the Birmingham NEC.
"I couldn't believe it when someone tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to step to one side," says Erin.
"It turned out it was someone from Select. They asked me to go down to London for a trial and then said they wanted to put me on their books. It was so exciting."
In the last year, Erin has done modelling assignments for DKNY, Cacharel and Aveda, as well as catwalk shows which she still finds a little daunting. "I have never spent so much time surrounded by so many adults, I get quite nervous, but you just have to get on with it."
And she has just been chosen as one of three models to front this year's Clothes Show Live.
But what is life really like for a teenager plunged into the spotlight of the modelling world?
Her mum, Marjorie, and dad, Greg, who used to play for Sheffield Wednesday, are confident that Erin has a sensible head on her shoulders and can cope with juggling school and modelling.
"Erin is very modest and an incredibly sensible girl," said her mum. "Her school is very supportive and so long as her school work is not suffering, which it isn't, and Erin is happy, we will just take each day as it comes."
Erin says: "When I am at school, I concentrate on that and when I am modelling, I concentrate on that, one doesn't get in the way of the other. I had never really thought about being a model. In fact, I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I would like to do my A-levels and go to university."
Mrs Fee says she is happy with the way Select Model Management is running Erin's career and says she trusts their judgment. "They are very conscious that she has got to juggle school and modelling, and they make sure that most of her modelling jobs are at weekends or during the school holidays. She has never had time off school to go modelling. Erin is always chaperoned either by us or one of her sisters, and if not, someone from Select will go with her.
"We have found it very hard to advise her as it is not a world we are familiar with," said Mrs Fee, who has three other daughters.
"We have had to put our trust in Select and they have been great. They have pointed out the pitfalls and negatives, they didn't just paint a rosy picture. We will just have to see how it goes and see what the future holds."
Indeed, Select is very protective of its young signings. The agency is particularly sensitive when it comes to questions of weight and nutrition, after the recent furore over "0"-sized models.
A spokesman said it was not "appropriate" for Erin to be expected to answer such questions, and that Select took the health of its models very seriously.
"Select models have always placed the well-being of their models as a priority. We have a nutritionist available at all times and we ask our models to learn more about living and eating healthily.
"When someone is doing as much travelling as some of our models do, it is all too easy to forget to eat the right kind of foods.
"Though this is not confined to the world of modelling, we see it as a part of our responsibility to make sure we take care of our models where health and fitness is concerned."
And it is clear that a teenager like Erin who manages, it seems, quite successfully, to juggle school, a modelling career and playing netball, would not be able to do so if she was not eating properly.
At 5ft 9in, Erin is not exceptionally tall, but with her slender figure, black hair and piercing blue eyes it is not difficult to see why she caught the attention of Select's scouts.
Clothes Show Live 2006 will run from
December 1 to 6 at the NEC Birmingham. Tickets are now on sale and can be ordered by phone (Box Office – 0870
380 2288) or online at
ww.clotheshowlive.com.
"Dark Scarlet"
Model : Erin Fee
Ph by Chris Craymer
Styling by Toby Grimditch
- 8 pages (6 photos)