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AIBU?

12 y.o dd just been scouted by top London model agency, isn't she too young?!

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seakelp · 02/07/2011 15:42

A woman approached my dd and asked her if she'd been scouted before, she said no, she then gave her a card and I've checked the agency out, it's basically v. well known indeed.

My dd is only 12 though, surely it's a big mistake?

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JamieAgain · 02/07/2011 19:35

The series was really interesting viewing. But for all their apparent concern for the models the impression I came away with was that it was all cold hard cash to the, The model who lost it and wanted to come back from her first trip to America was a case in point.

JamieAgain · 02/07/2011 19:35

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heather1 · 02/07/2011 19:47

imo too young. Did you see the recent Channel 4 programme on a well known modeling agency? It was horrifying. I would not expose my daughter to that. If she has potential then she will still have it when she is 18 and wants to go down that career path.

JamieAgain · 02/07/2011 19:48

That sounds really sensible TSC

It does "get" to me a bit that the model aesthetic is to look so young and yet to be selling clothes to women who are at least a decade older. It's just weird

JamieAgain · 02/07/2011 19:49

But then I am an ugly old crone BornInAfrica and therefore jealous

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doozle · 02/07/2011 19:56

jamieagain, I don't know. The new model seemed very hot and cold and wouldn't give them a straight answer. I can imagine that was very frustrating for the agency who were dealing with the likes of Mario Testino and then she just wouldn't show up.

Money was a factor but it didn't seem to me the only reason they were doing it.

JamieAgain · 02/07/2011 19:59

I thought that if they were so concerned about her they should have gone out and chaperoned her. They couldn't seem to get that for a 16 year old the gruelling schedule might not be worth it for possible riches in the end . And they didn't seem to get that for an intelligent girl, University might be more appealing

JamieAgain · 02/07/2011 20:00

Pressed send to early. It was the fact they were so wound up in the fabulousness of the industry that they were about any other life choice. Fair dos' - they aren't social workers they are out to make money, but that's where the models being so young is a problem, IMO

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meditrina · 02/07/2011 21:02

One of my DCs has been scouted twice (teen modelling, not full on adult). I said "no" - t does wonders for playground cred, BTW.

I might change my mind once older than 16 - I wouldn't be expecting catwalks and superstardom - just a nice little earner (take 2 years out whilst they want you, move back to Mum for delayed A levels, have made enough to pay for university).

doozle · 02/07/2011 21:02

If I remember correctly, jamieagain, the model was fairly insistent she wanted to go to New York alone and didn't even want her parents to go with her.

I think the agency got caught up in thinking they'd found the new Kate Moss and were disappointed on a number of levels when she pulled out. Of course, financially but also at her lost potential.

I don't know. I sort of warmed to the agency staff a bit over the series.

Halogen · 02/07/2011 21:05

take 2 years out whilst they want you, move back to Mum for delayed A levels, have made enough to pay for university

This seems to me exactly the point of it all. It's not a job for life, although some people get twenty odd years out of it. It's a 'take them for all you can while you can' kind of thing.

doozle · 02/07/2011 21:09

Interestingly enough though, I think that model might now be back on their books - which I guess shows she didn't have to make up her mind at such a young age.

She might have been an exceptional case however.

nickschick · 02/07/2011 21:11

Last year I was in Manchester and got lost,a lovely young lady helped me to where I needed to be and on the way explained to me she was a 'scout' that particular day she was looking for 'daddy types' when she saw the 'type' she was looking for she would approach them tell them who she was and from which agency she represented and give them her card,the option to pursue was theirs.

Its not unpleasant to think that the OPs 12 year old daughter fitted a niche that today the agency were looking to find,I think if the young girl is interested then she should give it a try- who knows what may become of it?.

Im not envious nor am I easily impressed but clearly your daughter has a 'look' the agency likes,so im really happy for her.

nevergonnahappen · 02/07/2011 21:12

my ds will make me rich!! i have the face only a mother could love!!!

worraliberty · 02/07/2011 21:15

Whenever anyone on this thread says they used to be a model, I've tried clicking on their nickname to see if they have a profile with photos...then I'm secretly disappointed to find they don't

Please say I'm not the only one who has done this?

Chundle · 02/07/2011 21:16

Go for it seakelp - let her have a try else she may live to regret it. If you aren't out of pocket doing it and she doesn't come to harm and stays working hard at school then what's the harm!

seeker · 02/07/2011 21:16

Why would ANYONE want their daughter to be a model? And I have a child who was scouted at The Clothes Show Live, so no jealousy, sour grapes or raining on anyone's parade here.

worraliberty · 02/07/2011 21:20

Because seeker perhaps that's what their daughter wants to be?

We can only encourage our kids down the paths we think is right for them.

We can't march them down it with a gun (more's the pity!)

Bluebell99 · 02/07/2011 21:22

Me too Worraliberty! I am actually suspicious that none of these former models or people with potential model daughters have any photos on their profiles!

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seeker · 02/07/2011 21:28

'We can only encourage our kids down the paths we think is right for them.' And away from paths that we know will be soul destroying and psychologically damaging.

Oh, and there are pictures of my dd on my profile. You may not have recognized them because she looks like a teenager, not a barbie doll. Despite this she was seriously scouted.

worraliberty · 02/07/2011 21:34

And away from paths that we know will be soul destroying and psychologically damaging

But we don't know they will be soul destroying or psychologically damaging...one can only assume and that's not a good enough reason imo to stop your child doing something they desperately want to do.

In any case, if they're that determined they'll do it anyway as soon as they're old enough...with or without parental support.

And I'm sure they'd be a lot safer and happier with that support.

seeker · 02/07/2011 21:37

'But we don't know they will be soul destroying or psychologically damaging...one can only assume and that's not a good enough reason imo to stop your child doing something they desperately want to do.'

That's called being a parent in my book. And at 12, I also reckon it's what the parent wants rather than what the child desperately wants to so.

pound signs in the eyes.

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