Model Behavior (PLEASE READ POST #1 BEFORE POSTING)

[readings]

Strange, but then I suppose it's still unclear how the other models got in.

I and people from my company have been travelling around and outside of Europe with authorisations delivered for work. From my experience it is possible these days if you can justify professional reasons (but you might need to isolate for a certain amount of time on arrival or upon return, depending on the destination).

So yes the fact that all of the other models had no problem entering Italy seems logical to me. And it proves perfectly her point... What a horrible story.

 

[Armani]

Mona responding to DMs regarding her anti-vaxx statement. Ugh. It’s so disappointing to see an 18-year-old with such a vast catalog of pristine bookings to her name at her age to make such a disturbing, unsourced statement public to her 70k+ followers… and she most definitely is old enough to know better. Bye, Mona!

credit: supermodeidaily on twitter

 

[THD96]

"I read up on my sh*t" aka I read 3 posts in a closed group I followed on FB and now I know how the vaccines work. Is there a cult of "nature is better" models that I don't know about.

 

[mikel]

Shameful!

instagram/mona_tougaard

She seems to enjoy the attention. Which makes it even more shameful.

 

[Miran]

She just finished highschool and she is pretending like she knows everything, and what is even "natural medicine", just smoke weed and it will all be ok.. yeah sure kid.

 

[cestmagique]

Viruses are natural too she's ignorant and smug about it, but she's also super young. I'll save more of my irritation for someone like Doutzen.

 

[FiveEasyPieces]

A lot of people born over the past 50 years are bafflingly ignorant about the history of infectious disease and have no grasp of how prevalent and disruptive they were. Unfortunately, I don’t think people like Doutzen or Mona will fully understand the danger until someone close to them has an adverse reaction to COVID.

 

[danawokarrr]

I don't see any peak of her career if she continues with that position about corona vaccines. At least she got her Meisel cover.

And she shouldn't have one. Bye girl. Seriously side-eying anyone like S*lena Forrest who's still cozying up to her

 

[lukechapman]

This is really sad. I hope she educates herself some more on this issue. I wonder how this will effect her bookings in the future, as there will probably be some countries that will not allow people in if they are not vaccinated

 

[Mrs.T]

This is really sad. I hope she educates herself some more on this issue. I wonder how this will effect her bookings in the future, as there will probably be some countries that will not allow people in if they are not vaccinated

They wont change they have their truth which is the only truth.

 

[dsamg]

I know she is young but it certainly is baffling when these people have such gripes with capitalism when they choose to spend their career working for the most capitalist industry there is.

 

[Valentine27]

The worse is to think about all the other models who must be like "preach girl!" while responding to her stories... It's like models who were liking Doutzen's posts... Upsetting.

 

[Benn98]

They wont change they have their truth which is the only truth.

I wonder what her reaction will be if someone lay down the facts in front of her? Could she explain away the scientific proof, the deaths, the videos, my God, in one Latin American country, I dunno if it was Ecuador or Bolivia....their healthcare system crashed and bodies were piling up such that people had to transport corpses on their own to a mass grave. Some even had to keep the corpses of their COVID-infected loved ones at home, waiting for the undertaker to arrive while entire FAMILIES slept in the street. Literally. Because they couldn't sleep in a COVID-infected house. Small children bewildered by it all, crying after parents who passed away. It was honestly one of the most heart-wrenching scenes I've seen in modern times.
I want the likes of Doutzen and Mona to look those families in the eye and tell them that plants and natural medicine could have saved their loved ones.

 

[GERGIN]

I really cannot hold judgement on Mona's statements...she's still young, finding herself out, she will over time see the errors of her mistake but I think she's still a pretty decent person considering some minor flaws. Unfortunately, I think her bad influence comes from Selena, she just seems so messed up imo...

 

[Benn98]

I really cannot hold judgement on Mona's statements...she's still young, finding herself out, she will over time see the errors of her mistake but I think she's still a pretty decent person considering some minor flaws. Unfortunately, I think her bad influence comes from Selena, she just seems so messed up imo...

LOL, well I'll hold judgement. Just kidding (or am I?)

But you're right about Selena. I actually like her a lot, but she does seem troubled and that's likely due to her environment.

Via Evening Standard:

Selena Forrest: fashion's most exciting new trailblazer

She tells Samuel Fishwick her incredible story...

Samuel Fishwick@Fish_o_wick
26 April 2018

At 18, the model of the moment has already spent two years walking runways for Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Proenza Schouler, starred in ad campaigns for DKNY, has more than 50,000 followers on Instagram and is being widely hailed as one of fashion’s most exciting new trailblazers. But it’s her #sass we fell in love with when we saw her owning the Fendi catwalk in Milan last season with a wink and a strut.

The teenager, who splits her downtime between a midtown apartment in New York and her family home in Los Angeles, has the infectious, laconic charm of a naturalised Californian: self-assured, post-label. ‘I’m more of a try-sexual. I’ll try anything twice,’ she says. ‘Technically I’d be called a bisexual, for instance, but I prefer women. I can see myself marrying a woman for the rest of my life, but I could not see myself marrying a man, no way. I don’t consider myself anything. I want everyone to feel like they can be themselves — unless they’re a serial killer.’

Originally from Lafayette, Louisiana, Forrest grew up tough, driving quad bikes with her older brothers Robert, 25, and Anthony, 29, and learning how to shoot bows, arrows and shotguns with her dad, Robert, a former deep sea diver. Her little sister, Dakota, is 15. Her father broke up with her mum, Roxanne, who worked in oil refineries, before Forrest was six months old. Roxanne moved to California while Forrest remained with her dad.

‘I didn’t have to talk to my parents about coming out — my mum already knew,’ she says.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina forced them to flee across the country to California. ‘We had to get out of our neighbourhood. But it wasn’t like a tragic time. I was so you ng that it was fun — we were eating military-style rations that came with candy bars, so I was super happy about that.’

Things got worse before they got better. ‘In America it’s hard — my family fell on hard times, that’s what happened. It’s not about how I got there, it’s about how I got out of there,’ she says. ‘I was in a bad environment before I was blessed with my job. Before I started modelling I lived in a straight trap house — a place where people come and buy drugs and s*** like that. I tried to keep my mind right and have faith in myself and believe in myself.’

At 16, she was scouted while she was at Huntington Beach, California, with her cousins. ‘A security guard stopped us and took the [smuggled] alcohol, which was the downside,’ she recalls. ‘But at the same time there was a lady who came running out of a restaurant and said, “Have you ever thought of modelling?”’ At first, Forrest blew her off. ‘I was hesitant about it. But when I started seeing it was the real deal I started thinking about how can I make this into something that can set me up for life.’

The woman soon introduced Forrest to what would become her first agency. But there were further obstacles. To secure her first modelling job, she removed her own braces with a set of pliers after she was quoted $1,100 to have them taken out, and she still can’t get her head around heels. ‘I’m so used to sneakers,’ she says, preferring to spend her spare time skateboarding or playing basketball rather than working on her walk. ‘When I first started they wanted to put me in walking classes and s***. I was like, oh my God, this is not for me.’

But defying convention has become part of her brand. Opening Proenza Schouler’s spring 2016 show, she added a little victory jig after walking off the runway. ‘I don’t think we’re ever going to get that perfect model walk from me. Not being the norm — I guess that’s part of my thing.’

Despite a successful engagement with Instagram, she tries to steer clear of social media, acutely aware of the Cambridge Analytica and Facebook data scandals gripping the States. ‘My dad taught and instilled in me to be private — he said from the get go, before this Facebook s***, that they’re listening to us through our phones,’ she explains. ‘I’m not surprised but it does make me wanna not have all that stuff. They’ve made us so comfortable with this digital, fake world. We’re so dependent on it. It’s just a way to control us and disengage us.

‘Right when we wake up, we’re on Instagram, right when we go to sleep, we’re on Instagram. The first thing I do when I wake up is roll a joint, at say, like, s***, 8.30am or 9am, then I stretch, meditate a bit, do some breathing exercises. Then I start my day from there.’ It seems to be working.

The only thing that worries her at the moment is that girls are ‘in way too much competition with each other’, she says, in modelling as in all walks of life. ‘At castings I make sure I go out and say good luck to everybody — they’re too scared to say that. There needs to be a lot less taking each other down. There’s definitely enough room for all of us at the top. I hope we all make it — I’m not in competition with anybody but my old self.’

 

[GERGIN]

LOL, well I'll hold judgement. Just kidding (or am I?)

But you're right about Selena. I actually like her a lot, but she does seem troubled and that's likely due to her environment.

Via Evening Standard:

Selena Forrest: fashion's most exciting new trailblazer

Things got worse before they got better. ‘In America it’s hard — my family fell on hard times, that’s what happened. It’s not about how I got there, it’s about how I got out of there,’ she says. ‘I was in a bad environment before I was blessed with my job. Before I started modelling I lived in a straight trap house — a place where people come and buy drugs and s*** like that. I tried to keep my mind right and have faith in myself and believe in myself.’

‘Right when we wake up, we’re on Instagram, right when we go to sleep, we’re on Instagram. The first thing I do when I wake up is roll a joint, at say, like, s***, 8.30am or 9am, then I stretch, meditate a bit, do some breathing exercises. Then I start my day from there.’ It seems to be working.

The only thing that worries her at the moment is that girls are ‘in way too much competition with each other’, she says, in modelling as in all walks of life. ‘At castings I make sure I go out and say good luck to everybody — they’re too scared to say that. There needs to be a lot less taking each other down. There’s definitely enough room for all of us at the top. I hope we all make it — I’m not in competition with anybody but my old self.’

She sounds much more sophisticated here than she did in that live Instagram that she and Mona were in, I tried to ask a few questions to Mona about working with Meisel and she was so one-note and honestly they were stoned out of their minds for sure.

As much as I support weed for medical purposes or occasional relaxation I do not agree that it should be used regularly on a daily basis and seeing how she was on that live feed I would say she definitely rolls one up more than once in a day...

 

[Mrs.T]

I wonder what her reaction will be if someone lay down the facts in front of her? Could she explain away the scientific proof, the deaths, the videos, my God, in one Latin American country, I dunno if it was Ecuador or Bolivia....their healthcare system crashed and bodies were piling up such that people had to transport corpses on their own to a mass grave. Some even had to keep the corpses of their COVID-infected loved ones at home, waiting for the undertaker to arrive while entire FAMILIES slept in the street. Literally. Because they couldn't sleep in a COVID-infected house. Small children bewildered by it all, crying after parents who passed away. It was honestly one of the most heart-wrenching scenes I've seen in modern times.
I want the likes of Doutzen and Mona to look those families in the eye and tell them that plants and natural medicine could have saved their loved ones.

They are not willing to listnen. They are like the people who believe that the earth is flat.
You cannot have a sensible debate with them.
I have tried it.

 

[cestmagique]

^like nurses who see it all firsthand and then refuse to get the covid vaccine... For most of these people I think it's how they deal with risk & fear, they just create an alternate reality where they aren't going to get sick and everything's fine. They're definitely not all young, dumb, or truly ignorant of what's going on.

 

[dsamg]

I really cannot hold judgement on Mona's statements...she's still young, finding herself out, she will over time see the errors of her mistake but I think she's still a pretty decent person considering some minor flaws. Unfortunately, I think her bad influence comes from Selena, she just seems so messed up imo...

Yes whenever there were photos of Selena hanging out with Lexi and Binx etc she always certainly looked messed up to say the least.

 

[GERGIN]

My only hope is that her management will educate her and request her not to solicitate false information on social media before they do anything drastic that will sabotage her career. I get she's coming off a big high of success but she needs to check her ego and realize that these are not the opinions to be expressing on a platform like Instagram.