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15 year olds too young to model?


Biztastic

Posts: 2

Posted: 10.04.2009 at 06.37
Modeling is just a job, why not?

If there is no logical, scientific, self evident or irrefutable reasons for a 15 year old to not model, then I say they should be allowed to. People drive this planet too much on opinion and feelings, and not enough on logical reasoning.

We are human, let us that gift which we have above all other creatures. The ability to analyze, ask why, deduce logically with reason and come to a conclusion which is fair and true rather than a conclusion which is controlling and opinionated. I am so tired of watching this world revolve around bias groups of law makers and brainwashed folk who do nothing but push their opinions and views of the world on everyone else, based on nothing but their feelings toward it.

If it is doing no harm then it should not bother anyone else.

Daniel

Posts: 14623

Posted: 09.12.2009 at 00.06
More 'too young' stories

Girl, 16, being bullied after posing nude on cover of Australian magazine

A 16-year-old schoolgirl who posed nude for the cover of a surfing magazine in Australia is being bullied by her peers, her modelling agency claims.

Pretty, dark-haired Ella Rose Corby became a controversial cover girl after winning Stab
magazines search for a model contest.

The raunchy magazine is known for its edginess, celebration of partying and sex, but has been slammed for using a naked teenage girl to sell its product.

Even though Ellas modesty is preserved by a crossed leg, with one arm covering her breasts, the photo shoot has attracted a wide range of criticism.

Local MP Justine Elliot, a mother herself, said: I think photographs like these are inappropriate, particularly when the young woman is only 16.

Stab writer Michael Jennings says in his article about Ella how a girl that age represents a danger to the adult male: They are moving into womanhood and they know it.
They dress older, sneak into clubs and are easily mistaken for adultsYou can leer at the 16-year-old as you would an adult woman, so long as youre ignorant.
Once you become aware of their age, you must look away.

The prize included being represented by Sydney-based modelling agency Chic Management.

But Chic spokeswoman Kathy Ward said Ellas family were upset by the photos.
She added: She is encountering some bullying from other girls of her age.
I think the family are a bit overwhelmed at the moment, they really are. The mums in a bit of shock.

Ms Ward said Ella was concerned about the adverse publicity affecting her career aspirations to become a top model.

Ms Ward, who has been involved with Chic since its establishment in 1993, slammed the nude shoot, saying it was totally inappropriate and, had the agency been representing Ella at the time, it would never have allowed her to pose nude.

From Chics point of view, the shoot that Ella participated in was totally inappropriate we would never allow such a shoot to progress if we knew that that was the creative brief, she said.

The magazine dealt directly with the family, which did not have any professional representation at the time, Ms Ward added.

Ella told the magazine in an interview the revealing poses were the beginning of a dream for her.

According to the magazine journalist, when Miss Corbys mother found out about the shoot, she freaked out.

But Ellas father said it was the kind of thing Ella would have to get used to if she wanted to be a model.

Mr and Mrs Corby were not answering the phone at their home in the up-market seaside town of Kingscliff, which is south of Tweed Heads on the north coast of New South Wales, close to where the ITV reality show Im A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! is filmed.



Posted: 18.12.2009 at 14.41
Hello,

Here in the United States the age limits here are only focused upon nudity and partial-nudity issues in which the strict minimum age is 18. Everything else is depended upon a culture which centers on parental rights which are not excluded to these very same strickly enforced restrictions.

Roger M. Christian
Ithaca, New York
Posted: 14.01.2010 at 13.39
I think it's sad that girls aren't allowed to express themselves in any way they want. Provided that they aren't forced to do anything they aren't comfortable with - then why the hell not?! I'm 14 and I'd LOVE a chance to model!
Just because your interests are in fashion, and not something like sport - where age is almost no issue, does not mean you should be prevented from doing it.
It's pathetic how society dictates that a girl can't even have a photo taken and used in print until she's 'old enough' - let's face it, she might not be that pretty later on, might have lost interest - anything could happen to her, and if she never had the chance before, then she'll have missed out.

I totally agree with 'underage' models, kudos to them all!!
xoxo

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