I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I began modelling in my late teens, I started to earn a lot of money very, very quickly, but I'd never been shown how to manage it properly.
I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.
I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.
I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.
Modelling's not something I want to do just on its own, but I always want it to be a part of my life.
If I wasn't modelling, I guess I would work in fashion as a buyer.
I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.
I went to a modeling agency and said I wanted to be a model. I worked, worked, worked so much while I was studying.
I started modelling while still studying. I liked doing television commercials and being in front of the camera. Lots of ad directors told me to try for films.
Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.