Models Actually Don’t Want to Work

7 years as a model manager / Mum / big sister / mentor / psychologist has given me quite the insight into teenagers and twenty-somethings in today’s age. What consistently floors me is that despite modelling being a profession the is often aspired to, those chosen few who have hit the genetic lottery and lucky enough to choose to be able to model as a full time profession, actually don’t want to work.

They will of course work, but only if the following conditions are met.

* The stars are aligned in Mercury Retrograde

  • They don’t have their period
  • Someone can drive them
  • There’s not a festival within a 500km radius that day
  • Their boyfriend is being nice to them
  • It’s no one in their family or friends birthdays…or even friends or friends
  • Their not on holidays
  • Their pets are healthy
  • They like the client
  • They don’t feel fat that day
  • They like the country the job is in
  • They haven’t organized some free instagram shoot on the side for a free tshirt
  • They haven’t lost their passport and/or it’s expired

And finally one of my all time favourites…

“I’ll only do it if it’s worth it”

What the fuck does that even mean