starfish42 opened this issue on Sep 25, 2007 · 116 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 26 September 2007 at 1:00 AM
Did anyone see the flap recently about that twelve-year-old girl in Australia working as a professional model, and serving as "the face of the Gold Coast Fashion Week"?
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22414903-952,00.html
This type of hot topic tends to get people hot under the collar. Interesting topic, though: in view of the fact that many professional fashion models begin their careers at age 14. It's a truly cutthroat business, and sleazy. Most of the top models who are pulling down millions of dollars went through a LOT to get where they are. Much of it not very pleasant. Not to mention the fact that for every Cindy Crawford success story there are 1000's of girls who went nowhere, career-wise -- and who went through deep waters arriving at that undesirable destination.
They would have been better off living a 'normal' life. But beautiful women are always in demand as a money-making commodity: so the business isn't going to go away. In fact, it seems to grow ever larger year-by-year.
shrug I've seen 14-year-olds who I would have sworn were 25 -- if I hadn't known better. And I've also seen 25-year-olds who I thought were 15.
In my personal opinion, the ideal age for beauty in women is in their late 20's through their 30's: but the fact is that men WILL notice an attractive woman at any age. Emphasis on the word "woman".