^ She was super hyped up in the US. She had that major Calvin Klein contract and there were articles everywhere online (style, models.com, etc) and in printed publications (Bazaar, etc) on how she was the next big thing and basically the new Kate Moss (because.. CK).
I loved her, but she was a part of a not-so-lucky small wave of models that got caught in between a shift from the hype of the Brazilians (1998-2002) to the rise of the more puritanical doll-like models (2004-2007). Jessica Miller, Eugenia Volodina, Louise Pedersen, Filippa Hamilton and initially Natalia Vodianova, they were all lumped into the same group and had a kind of dark & mysterious vibe to them
and were quite sexualized. They were in every show and expectations were high.
W October 2002 even presented them as the new supermodels. US Bazaar did feature all of them regularly but I think Jessica and Louise, just like Susan Eldridge (also popular then), did some very risky, NSFW type of work abroad and had 100% 'bad girl' reputations (Susan was dating Terry and did some really raunchy work, and Jessica was a part-time groupie- dating the Incubus guy and the System of a Down guy around 2003), which kept them from ever representing the more conservative US Vogue values (lol) and I think that did it for their careers. Next thing you know Natalia 'snatched' the coveted CK contract, Vogue did a 180 on her image (her debut in an American publication [Bazaar May 2002 by Sorrenti], vs. the Alice in Wonderland story in 2003 and the Cinderella narrative is worlds apart), and Filippa became a Ralph Lauren model.
I don't think Jessica was impacted by Daria's quick rise at all. Terry wasn't even that influential. I'm not a model agent but you probably do need to forecast changes in the industry and make choices accordingly and I think the work she did prevented her from branching out into the next era and into the one market that can secure your career (the US) with Vogue, the beauty contracts and all that.
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