Interview with Sadia from ELLE Canada - tumblr/elmerolsen
Lovely Sadia sits down with ELLE Canada and discusses her transformation from tomboy to up and coming model during our annual Bootcamp 2 Bigtime.
Bio: “I’m 20, and have been in university for two years. I’m going into my third this September at York University studying environmental studies. I joined Elmer in June. It’s an adventure.”
Role call: “When I was younger I would always get scouted but I was a really big tomboy and I played basketball so I didn’t really think it would be something I would be into—and also especially because I was so young, and my mom wanted me to stick with my studies. And now that I’m older and was approached again, I gave it a second thought —I’m grown now, I like to dress like a girl.”
Model behaviour: “I would love to carve out a modelling career and be an inspiration for younger girls because I know a lot of girls start out really young and they don’t really know themselves—I can imagine starting at 16 and I wouldn’t know what to do, especially with different influences of right and wrong—so I’m just hoping to be a model but a model for other girls to be themselves and to love themselves. So that’s number one; and just to establish a really long career and wherever it may take me to just stick with it and be myself.”
Hometown fave: “My background is Somali and so I would say Yasmin Warsame –she’s one of the big Somali models and she’s from Toronto!”