Is it official? Do you have to have famous parents to be a model these days?

[GoodbyeToAllOfThat]

It used to be that models were actually models, plucked out of obscurity and quite often, poverty.

Now it's all celebrity offspring. The Jagger girls are simply not model material. Gigi Hadid might have been a successful catalog model were it not for the Real Housewives connection. Kendall Jenner. Haley Baldwin.

Not a real model in the whole lot. It's perverse.

AIBU?

Oh. And now Sylvester Stallone's daughter is becoming a model, and he really believes in her and has faith she can succeed.

Don't forget Brooklyn Beckham. He's 16 and apart from modelling seems to be turning into a celebrity who pops up at fashion shows and parties everywhere. It's a wonder he has time for school.

YANBU in the slightest OP, I have often wondered if any of these 'models' would be given a second glance if they came from a 'normal' family.

The girl that does the Rimmel adverts actually makes me NOT want to buy it.

Sure you are right but actually have no idea who any of these so called models are!

It's like acting or dress designing though isn't it? It's who you know.

Yes, forgot about Brooklyn. Honestly I have no gripe with the Beckhams, but I think their kids are merely garden variety cute.

breadstix that's a Jagger I believe, and yes I wouldn't buy it either.

I know, I have too much time on my hands.

In fairness, the trick to being a model has always been an accident of genetics providing you with the looks that agencies want at that time. A different accident of genetics providing you with famous parents is more or less the same thing - there's never been a huge amount of merit in landing this kind of job.

Sure. But there's something very irritating about this charade that Kendall Jenner (for example) is a great beauty.

So that's why I am getting nowhere with my modelling career, I knew there must be a reason!

quite right.

I personally cannot stand Kendell Jenner, I'm sure she's a nice girl and everything but she looks so bloody vacant and dull as shit. There is just nothing there.
I saw that Noel Gallagher daughter was going into modelling, she's cute, but not particularly photogenic.
It's just absurd really.

Add posh to that too. Status not Spice.

Yes, I forgot about the Gallagher girl, she is another merely attractive person. But look at her father.

YANBU - Amber Le Bon (daughter of Simon and Yasmin) is another model without merit.

And does anyone else think that Brooklyn is becoming a bit of a PeterAndreLovesHisKids character with all the stuff about how much he dotes on his little sister and what a protective big brother he is?

LOL. Toting little Harper around is probably veeeery effective with the ladies.

Yanbu. Even the ones with non famous parents seem to come from posh families.

Although kendall Jenner looks like a model, I doubt that body would have remained 'undiscovered'.

I don't think Kendall Jenner looks like a model.

I FORGOT!!! Cara Delvigne. No, no, no.

I cannot believe the words Daisy Lowe have not made it on to this thread!

She is a very pretty young woman, with a slim figure. But she is so far from a model, a la Linda Evangelista, et al.

I think models are becoming "pretty people who the public will recognise" rather than "people who have a particular body shape / bone structure that photographs well"

Daisy Lowe. What an oversight. I never really got Linda Evangelista, incidentally.

I have this idea that the Geldof girls are modelling, too?

Their job is to bring publicity to brands. Using a famous name/link is just one angle on the endless promotion needed for low quality stuff with a big price tag isn't it?

I think models are becoming "pretty people who the public will recognise" rather than "people who have a particular body shape / bone structure that photographs well"

I think you're right. I was watching a show on plus size models not too long ago, I think it was on 4OD - the models who are making it now (oversize, anyway) are the ones who are major fashion bloggers.

Nah! Goodbye don't say that!
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Respectfully, Greythorne, it's Madame Turlington who wins.

To be fair, the Jagger and le Bon girls' mothers are "models [that] were actually models", even if their dads are just boring old rock stars, so there's bound to be something in the genes.

I find it quite hard to get upset over modelling; as people upthread have said, success is pretty much luck either way.

I am more miffed for people whose hard work and talent is eclipsed by the sons and daughters of the famous; foe example, I cannot believe that Stella McCartney is one of the best designers of her generation or that Peaches Geldof was the most talented young female journalist when she landed all her columns and TV work.