So ... Your Child is A Model ... Now What? Model Mom Support Thread.

[amboloney]

very interesting stories from all the model moms.....I am wondering if this would be the case for male modeling? Will parents be together with thier son who is under 16?

 

[sedirea]

Loved reading all these stories. Thank you

 

[iximisspiggyixi]

These are amazing stories, thanks so much to everyone who has shared! I'm not a model or a model mom but I do work in the industry and have many friends who are models, and it's true that the industry really isn't as glamorous as everyone on the outside thinks it is. So many young girls are left to fend for themselves in big cities like NYC/Paris/etc. and it's very difficult and stressful, and instant success stories are so rare...but they can happen so it's all about having serious perseverance and drive, and most important the support of great friends or parents, like model_mom here.

 

[BetteT]

I just split the One Model's story thread ... and brought the other stories here ... to the Model Mom Support thread ... and wanted to bump this up.

 

[Fontenrose]

very interesting stories from all the model moms.....I am wondering if this would be the case for male modeling? Will parents be together with thier son who is under 16?

Boys usually are not ready for international modeling until they are older.

 

[model_mom]

Thanks Bette for putting all of this together.

When Ali started modeling I went to the bookstore and bought a book by Roshumba Williams (?) called" Modeling For Dummies" or something like that....it was so funny...I was going to be so prepared to help my daughter succeed in this business. What a laugh....there is nothing like the first hand experience of others to make you appreciate how many mistakes you can make no matter how much you 'read' about it.

 

[janznote]

Us too!

Thanks Bette for putting all of this together.

When Ali started modeling I went to the bookstore and bought a book by Roshumba Williams (?) called" Modeling For Dummies" or something like that....it was so funny...I was going to be so prepared to help my daughter succeed in this business. What a laugh....there is nothing like the first hand experience of others to make you appreciate how many mistakes you can make no matter how much you 'read' about it.

OMG! We got that same book when Sessi first started. It was the Idiot's Guide to Modeling by Roshumba! So funny. I guess it works then, huh?

 

[model_mom]

I've loaned it out to about 20 people then I forgot who the last person was that I gave it to
so I guess it's gone but maybe that person will pass it on.

 

[janznote]

It's a good book

I've loaned it out to about 20 people then I forgot who the last person was that I gave it to
so I guess it's gone but maybe that person will pass it on.

I still have ours. Although there is nothing like real life, we should thank Roshumba for the start! It's an interesting book and will get you started when you don't know anything.

We should do lunch sometime when in NYC. We have so much in common. Maybe we can start a real life group of model moms!B)

 

[model_mom]

Wouldn't that be something? They were talking about unionizing the models in the weight thread maybe it the moms that need to unionize....there would be no stopping us. ...


and now I think it would be appropriate to go and say something nice about the fashion industry in this forum.

 

[janznote]

I know...

Wouldn't that be something? They were talking about unionizing the models in the weight thread maybe it the moms that need to unionize....there would be no stopping us. ...


and now I think it would be appropriate to go and say something nice about the fashion industry in this forum.

We could simply call it M.O.M. (Mothers Of ModelsD

 

[LOVEITALL]

I'm in - only other model mother's can believe the stories without saying "you let your daughter do that!" Not bad things really, just weird things for a young teenage girl. These aren't in the "how to" books, stepping outside the box I call it. For a teenage American girl it is as far from America's Next Top Model that anyone can imagine- TV drama and real life drama are worlds apart. You wonder why girls are always coming & going in the modeling world. The ups & downs are constant.

 

[janznote]

I know what you're talking about...

I'm in - only other model mother's can believe the stories without saying "you let your daughter do that!" Not bad things really, just weird things for a young teenage girl. These aren't in the "how to" books, stepping outside the box I call it. For a teenage American girl it is as far from America's Next Top Model that anyone can imagine- TV drama and real life drama are worlds apart. You wonder why girls are always coming & going in the modeling world. The ups & downs are constant.

Sessilee called me from a runway show when she was only sixteen to tell me that the designer had her wear a purse around her waist that was purposely designed to look like a male body part. I must say that I was a bit upset about that. Sometimes I don't know what they are thinking. But by the time I found out about it it was too late; it had already happened. I complained to her agent but I think he just humored me and said that he would call the designer and lay into him. I'm sure that never happened.

 

[Street_a_Licious]

whoa, good lord, jesus christ.....

if any of your daughters go to Milan and need someone to show her around, lemme know. i got a really good friend there and she's gotta be one of the sweetest (and also hottest ) girls i know. i'm sure she'd be glad to help.

 

[model_mom]

whoa, good lord, jesus christ.....

Is that intended to be funny? When you're daughter calls and is upset (for whatever reason) and you're hundreds of miles away there's nothing funny about it.

My guess is that you

A. work at an agency and are laughing your a** off at all this.

B. sit around and dream about getting within 10 feet of a hot model

C. Are truly serious in which case I apologize.

I would have sent you this message in a PM but since your profile is private I just had to respond here.

 

[Street_a_Licious]

uhm.... i AM serious. i don't know about any of you, but i hate to be alone in a city with noone to talk to cause i don't know anyone. if i go to Italy, i limit myself to Rome, Milano and Firenze cause it's the only places where i actually have friends/know people and i don't speak a single sentence in italian (i get it confused with spanish.... like, i hear italian but am perplexed cause my brain tries to register it as spanish which confuses me even more)

besides, even i made friends just by meeting up with people i was referred to by other friends.

i'm sorry if i offended any of you and no, i don't care about getting close to any model as i'm not that kinda guy. (i limit my lusting to Chad White and Terron Wood )

 

[model_mom]

In that case....I'm sorry. typical mom

 

[Street_a_Licious]

i just hope i didn't offend you. we (my friends and I) are very open and friendly people (international school people) and i was just horrified to read about what janznote had to go through and also your daughters who had to fend for themselves in a city where noone understands them.

if anyone ever needs help in milano, i'm sure my friend would be glad to help.

 

[BetteT]

As well intended as that offer is ... I don't think that any model mom would ever take you up on it. You and your friend are total strangers and their daughters are out there a long way from home without Mom to keep an eye on the people in their daughter's lives.

Only the very young and/or naive feel like they know the people they meet on the net. A smart mom knows that talking on the net does not constitute "knowing" someone. She would need to meet face to face and spend a lot of time together before she felt that she actually knows a person.

Anyway, I just don't see it happening.

 

[LOVEITALL]

I couldn't agree more! It's hard enough having your daughter so far from home - trust is a huge issue and you place that in the agency's hands. I would rather have her be extra cautious than too trusting.