I tried to make a run for this like 10 yrs ago. I got turned down. It was worth a shot right? lol

Necessary but bad for many people ... trying to attain abnormally low weights or muscles.

I used to be a hand model until I cut myself by accident while slicing mango. Now, I just review things, and while typing, I just can't help but notice my 'mango scar of 1997.'

awesomee. if i could.

Again, only if I met the requirements.

I wonder if I'm pretty to be a model?

have that job already so...

I use to be cute enough for this

Not for me, but it wouldn't be the worst job! Depends what I was modelling I guess!

hmmm. i love it.

make lots of money

This would be an awesome job.

i guess it could be fun, if you wanted to travel

except nude modeling!!!!

It would probably really test a person's will power though... Especially if they had trouble with their weight.

beauty can only get you so far.....

I don't like in when other people sell themselves, and I don't want to either.

anorexia...here I come...NOT

Okay.

When I was younger, i wanted to become an actor, but everytime I would go for an audition they would say " Actor - no, model -yes" I guess my accent, my long hair, and slim figure was giving them wrong idea!

modeling is a hard job, im currently doing a modeling course and just learning how to walk like a model is a challenge in itself and then you have to do different styles of walking to different beats much like dancing. Its also a tough business there are alot of rejections, you don't have to have the walk as well you have to have the looks and have great make-up and hair which isn't always done for you. I myself want to get into the buisiness and im not a size 6 im totally against diets and really skinny people make me sick.

People who get paid FAR too much to sit around looking pretty? I don't see the point...

(and no, I'm not saying models have nothing else to offer...but as far as their career choices go: they get paid solely because they ARE pretty, nothing else matters)

When it comes down to it models are simply whores for one of the most greedy, pointless and immoral businesses on the planet..the fashion industry. just in case you're nonplussed, the fashion industry only exists by coercing impressionable people into thinking that they can only be accepted in society if they have a certain image and that if they dont then they're uncool,geeky.. whatever.

I work part-time as a model for a fashion store. It's a very much fun and uplifting job, plus you have lots of admirers and positive attention. It's hard work, but it feels so good to just walk confidently and having people love you. The only downside is the way the majority of women hate models unfairly and think that we are snobbish, egocentric, and always cheerful. That's far from who I am. Models are people too. Please realize that we have flaws and we're not perfect. Most people think models are all the stereotype of being size three bulimics with blond hair. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've been in fashion shows. I do not consider myself thin. I'm not a size two or even a size six for that matter. I am a mixture of ethnicities and even if my hair is dirty blond, I'm not an aryan Kate Moss. Every model is different. I'm not a size 0 at all. To reveal the truth, I'm larger than a six. It pisses me off how people assume that because I've done fashion shows that I'm a Kate Moss clone. Please! I would never starve myself. In fact, I'm a sucker for chocolate and fried food. (Although I cannot eat it due to medical problems such as hyperthyrodism is genetic in my family.) I'm not perfect. I model clothes and I am mentally challenged because outside of my work, I do medical research on birth defects such as anencephaly. So please remember models are human beings too! By the way, I'm not a stick figure. There's no way in hell that I could come even close to being considered thin.

Go ahead and be one, if you want to stand in thirty-degree weather in a little bikini for about three hours while the photographer barks out orders at you. Not worth it, in my opinion.

I have no problem with models as people, I do however have a problem with the occupation and the messages it promotes to young people and I still think its an absolutely boring profession. I love clothes, but seeing it on someone who's an unhealthy size 0 is not going to encourage me to wear it and plus size models are extremely rare. Models get paid ridiculous amounts of money to parade about in clothes someone else has designed, starving themselves, not saying a word when people like teachers contribute in educating future leaders of tomorrow or nurses, doctors and even firemen save people's lives and their jobs as well as pay packets compared to that of a model just beggars belief. Models are not challenged mentally at all in their catwalk or photography work. It's all about the exterior in this job and having lots of admirers and positive attention and people loving me solely based on an individuals looks only re-ignites my opinion about how shallow this industry gets. Looks are not a passport to everything in this world, instead a visa that runs out... FAST!!!

Ugh. I would never lose weight because someone else said so or stress over my skin being flawlessly perfect because that's what's expected of me. And to be pushed out of the way when a younger, hipper, hotter model comes along? Where does an ex-model with no skills to speak of -- unless turning in a circle and flipping her hair can be considered skills -- get employed? One of my friends tried to model for Seventeen magazine a few years back -- they told the already 100 pound girl to lose 10 pounds, grow to be 5'10 (she was 5'6 at the time) and then come back. That's awful for a girl's self-esteem.

Why do people get upset when they are treated like a piece of meat but it is acceptable to have starving young women prance around in tiny clothes while looking bored?

Thats what I want to be.

I would never suggest anyone I care about to go into this profession. It sends a very cynical message to the world that judging by appearance is ok. Plus it's obvious that individuality is not an issue - how well you fit a type is. Who wants a career like that? Nice to look at but I wouldn't be able to stand a model more than 1 minute.

Modeling is a useless profession. Paying some stuck-up pre-madonna big bucks to model clothes that are to small for most average people is a waste of money.

Modeling is a great career but just like anything else it has its pitfalls. I currently am a model, and you get rejected constantly. Sometimes you may not get any work for weeks. It is a job that requires a lot of self-confidence and perserverance. It is not for everyone. I gave it a four beacause it is so much work and others can be so mean to you. More critism than any other job you can possibly think of! Your career may not always last very long and you never know when your agency might just decide they no longer need you because your look is out. Very fickle and strange business as well as EXTEMELY rewarding. It deserves a four.

My initial thought to this occupation was "Man, wouldn't it be cool to be a model? To just sit there and look beautiful and get paid for it?" Now I realize that it involves long hours, extreme boredom plus it would recuire not to be very selfconsious. Seriously everyone says vanity is so wrong, for most models it's required. To sit there and inspect every aspect of yourself trying to find something wrong. Or waiting for your employeers to find something wrong would be a very tiresome and degrading task indeed. So modelling sounds fun in theory but I'm certainly not ready to make the sacrifieses it'd require.

I think it's important to value beauty in the society, including human beauty, as much corporal as intellectual! But not al models are pretty or at least some fashion makers & others make them look less attractive.