Another thing, there are certain ways you can stand for the camera and look 10 pounds lighter. Say you got a little bit of a puff in your abs, stand with one hip toward the camera twist back, so you face the camera but still at a pretty good angle and make sure the brightest light is full center on you. No more puff when the camera goes click. As it will melt into the line of the hip toward the back.
In modeling it's consiered a 3/4 pose, and used 90% of the time with those ultra sleek/skimpy dresses and fit like a second skin and bathing suits. As the one thing I've notice the models who workout and eat healthy will be around a lot longer then those who starve themselves. And there are a lot of reasons, when you strave yourself you don't look your best, and you age faster, or sure give the appearence that you do. And secondly you just don't have the energy, needed for a 14 to 16 hour photo shoot. Anyone who has tried to fast, with just water knows how dead tired they are by the end of the day. Try it, jumping around as a child full of energy with a some breaks but basically for 14 hours, or even a fast with protien shakes/bars, that still is pretty hard to pull off. So remember what your doing is much more healier and you'll have that great body a lot longer and you'll look a lot younger then those models and cebs that are too thin and starve themselves.
But if you look at the fitness magizines most of the models are slim but don't have much muscle, at least not compared to the women I see everyday at the gym, who look healthy and workout to stay fit, and strong. And one reason is the fact the the industry doesn't want the women who looks strong and can take care of her self, but the skinny one who looks cute and still can look to a guy for protection.
Also another thing, most female models are 12 to 25, 25 your considered very old. Which is another reason why a lot of times their bodies look the way they do, they still haven't got all their curves.
And remember modeling is about, selling a dream an image that everyone wants. As a model you get to help bring that image to the photograph but it's not real. It's not even you, it is an idea that serveral people had. Of a beautiful female, and you get to play that role and make that female have life and sparkle like she's real. But she was never real except for in the minds of her makers, and those looking at her on that glossy page. Just like a story in a book, you can imagination yourself there, but it's all due to the author's and your own imagination. Just this time, it is in color rather then words.
And I think that's were a lot of us get lost, we see that dream, and want to be in it. And since it's not like a book where we can imagination ourselves being the hero, but that glossy magizine page has someone there that doesn't look anything like us. We then try to be achieve what we see, and want to not only have that image or dream but be it.
So remember just because you don't get to get up take a shower, brush your teeth grab breakfast and have a a make-up artist, and hair stylist waiting for you at 4:30 am. Your still as good as any model as long as you take care of your body to your best ability. You work just as hard as they do, sometimes even harder. And if you seen them on their day off. You'd probably trip over your jaw that's fell on the ground. Thinking you must need your eyes check, as the women in front of you looks nothing like a model, or any picture you ever seen of her.
As most females know make-up can change you a lot, just look at what most of us can achieve by ourselves when we want to go to some fancy night out.
Good lighting can make anyone look 10 pounds slimer, and take away a lot of flaws, as well as make you look like your more toned. If you try that 3/3 pose, almost every model on the cover of Shape or Fitness is in this pose, you can reduce your tummy or make it look like your got tight abs, just by a little bit of a twist of the body. The way you dress can cut out another 10 more pounds, and those wonderul photo imaging stuff that takes off red eye, smoothes skin tone, edits this flaw, enhance this over here. Anyone can look movie star perfect with that stuff.
So you may not have the money they do, but you still have a good body that could rival a lot of the talent on their days away from the camera.
This got a little bit longer then I wanted, but I wanted to show some of the things, that I've seen behind the scenes. So when you look at the TV or anywhere else, it's harder to draw you into that image of wanting to be someone's fantasy, as even for a model it took about 20 people or more to turn her into that fantasy, for a split second.
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