Without makeup or arrogance: the first and touching shots of Hadid, Kloss, Shayk and other models

Every month, the query “how to become a model” is searched by more than forty thousand girls. And this is only in Russia, and this is only in the Yandex search engine. Hundreds of thousands of very young girls dream of the catwalk every year – despite the fact that devastating articles are published every day about the modeling industry, after which it is scary to go to the shooting. Harassment, treatment, mental exhaustion – all these “costs” of the model’s work did not remain silent for a long time. Fortunately, this is not a mandatory attribute of a catwalk career, but a severe deviation that the industry itself is trying to combat.

But even with those sad statistics of “how to model” requests, month after month it just keeps getting bigger. And you don’t have to look for a hint for a long time – here they are, the long reasons for the popularity of a modeling career. Thanks to the lifestyle that Miranda Kerr, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and the Hadid sisters spread on social networks, modeling has more and more followers. And everyone believes that she will be able to repeat the path of her beloved idol, standing out from hundreds of colleagues. We can understand them: in most cases, these stories resemble a fairy tale about Cinderella, even if the starting capital allowed us not to live in the attic.

Miranda spent her childhood on an Australian farm. She learned to stay in the saddle before walking with a model gait. The girl did not dream of the podium at all and wanted to become a nutritionist. At the age of 14, succumbing to the persuasion of her friends, she entered a local beauty pageant and, to her surprise, won. The prize was a photoshoot in a teen magazine, which landed Miranda her first scandal.

Conservative readers expressed their opinion that a teenager should not be photographed in a bathing suit, but the more this topic was discussed, the more popular Kerr became. The modeling agents looked not at the bikini, but at the angelic features of the girl-star. You know the result – a dizzying career.

You probably know all about the childhood and youth of the beautiful Hadid – we talk about it so often! And even if you want to leave this painful subject aside, you cannot ignore it. The internet is unlikely to stop buzzing about how Yolanda always favored Gigi and unknowingly pushed her daughters head-on. That is why Bella entered the rank of the highest paid models in the world with serious complexes and even troubles.

The reason for one of them is right in front of your eyes: it’s easy to see that in the early snaps, Hadid didn’t look like she does now. Nose, eyes, Bish bumps, chin, facial contours – with all the amazing external data at the beginning, the girl always “tuned” her appearance in order to somehow compete with her older sister. She had her first plastic surgery at the age of 14, of course, with her mother’s permission. Who knows, if she didn’t feel like an extra in a modeling dynasty, maybe now Bella would be happier and look different?

If we said that Rosie in the photo on the left was worried about her appearance, you probably wouldn’t believe it. We also would have decided it was a joke if we hadn’t read an interview with a model in which she recalled the ridicule of her classmates. These teased Huntington-Whiteley because of the plump lips and braces. It’s only now that the straps have been removed and full lips have become Rosie’s trademark. The funny thing is that the future star herself did not fully realize how favorable nature was to her, and when she went to a modeling agency at the age of 16, she was asked for a position … a public relations specialist.

Fortunately, the scouts noticed a future star in the young employee and offered her a modeling contract. Things followed quickly: after two years of cooperation with Victoria’s Secret, Rosie became a brand angel, then played for the Pirelli calendar and even managed to work with Helena Bonham Carter. And he hasn’t changed much since his first model shot.

Unlike her colleagues in the selection, Carly knew from childhood what she would do in the future. At 14, she had already landed a contract with the Chicago division of the Elite agency, one of the most famous in the world. In addition, the future catwalk star studied at a special school, where she chose the subjects and schedules herself, so Carly learned to be independent at an early age.

One of Kloss’ first professional works was filming the Abercrombie children’s line, which began its lightning-fast modeling growth. Dozens of Fashion Week appearances, photo shoots, contracts, covers – Carly has become one of the most recognizable and successful models of her generation. From an awkward teenager with a special sense of purpose, she became a fashionable superstar who hasn’t lost that feeling.

Irina’s story is nowhere near as cheerful and coherent as Carly’s. More precisely, she was not like that at the very beginning of Shake’s career, when she studied at the Chelyabinsk College of Economics and had not yet forgotten how her classmates called her “Chunga-Changa”. Everything changed at the age of 18, when the student received the main prize at the Supermodel competition venue – and life was divided into “before” and “after”.

Since 2005, Shaykhlislamova has taken Europe by storm. Having changed her ornate surname to laconic “Sheik”, she did not immediately receive all the laurels of the winner. To enter the rank of “angels” of Victoria’s Secret., Irina was refused twice (!). And so, perhaps, his victories are so valuable – because they were achieved with difficulty and self-esteem. And also with love for the appearance given by nature, that the model of beauty has not changed.

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