There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We couldn't afford to move, so we decided to start up a model agency.
I actually wanted to become a model agent, and went into what ended up becoming my first agency for a job interview. They ended up suggesting I model instead. I guess I sort of fell into it.
I went to a modeling agency and said I wanted to be a model. I worked, worked, worked so much while I was studying.
For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time.
People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done it. You will always be dealing with it. You're an actor who used to be a model who never trained; there are not many directors queuing up.
It's really hard work being a model.
I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.
By no means am I trying to change the modeling industry.
My role models have kept on changing.