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How to Become a Model

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If you like travel, hard work, long days and keeping in shape, modeling might be for you.

Difficulty: Challenging
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  1. Step 1

    Consider your physical characteristics: Are you 5-foot-7 or taller? You should wear a size 4 to 6, and you should have a 32- to 35-inch bust, a 22- to 25-inch waist, and 33- to 36-inch hips.

  2. Step 2

    Determine whether you have any distinctive features.

  3. Step 3

    Work on having clear skin, healthy hair and straight teeth.

  4. Step 4

    Consider your mental attitude: You should be ambitious, confident, organized, willing to travel or move to foreign cities, able to spend and invest wisely and able to take rejection.

  5. Step 5

    Visit local modeling agencies to find an agent willing to help you build a portfolio.

  6. Step 6

    Go to castings and "go-sees" with your portfolio in hand to win potential clients and get modeling jobs.

  7. Step 7

    Be prompt and professional. Exhibit the confidence that you will use to sell products.

Tips & Warnings
  • Catalog models don't always have to be 5-foot-7 or taller, but they do have to be thin. Runway models are required to be at least 5-foot-9.
  • Teen or junior models must be 5-foot-6 and at least 12 years old, with youthful looks.
  • Modeling is not always glamorous. Long days of castings and go-sees, long trips on the road, rejection and stiff competition can be stressful.
  • Speak with a reputable professional before deciding whether modeling is for you.

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on 6/24/2009 I have used social modeling network sites to help me get noticed like modelmayhem.com, onemodelplace.com, and hipmodels.com

I met great people in the industry and got two jobs out of it.

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on 6/22/2009 no, no, no! i am 5 foot 4 inches and i have an agent and work all sorts of modeling jobs including runway all over phoenix and scottsdale. i never thought to try for any runway but my photographer rebecca told me to try anyway even when people are specifiy looking for tall models. i almost always get the job. lesson is that you have to try and dont listen to no even if you are short!!!

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