One of the first times I came to New York was for a modeling and talent competition, IMTA, which I won. I came with a group, like a modeling school from Fresno.
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I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.
I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.
I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything. It was for 'Chicago.' There were probably three hundred people there.
I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.
I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City.
To support myself as a kid, I was a model at art schools around Boston.
When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over.
I went to the Professional Children's School in New York, and I started modeling because I could do that until I actually figured out what I wanted to do, and it gave me the opportunity to travel.