to object to the term 'glamour model?'

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OK, I'm aware I'm probably going to sound like a Daily Mail ranting version of my mother, but I'm becoming increasingly irritated by this term being bandied about. Isn't it just soft porn, basically? Glamorised, to make it sound like a desirable ambition for girls without too much up top - that'll be up top in the brains department, not the boobs.

Bah!

omg,im posting in a built up area.call the polis.how very dare i have temerity to post on an open forum in an active topic.is irrefutable proof of my devil may care postings

cor.definitely summit fishy all that tapp tapping

who'd have thought words on a screen meant so much

aye,id like to know anyone wi a wee haggis in their drawers

it's a radar thing. see, scottish has this radar, whenever words like 'tit glamour model' or 'jordan' come up, her iPhone jingles so she can be on seen immediately.

correctamundo,and its doon ma drawers so a get a wee tickle too

you can include that snippet in your interview once you make it big getting your tits out for Sun readers!

it'll be the truest thing they've ever printed.

actually my radar is set for "dougray" "scott" but that is another story

hehehe ..

nevah! dougray scott?! he's a twat (well, looks like one).

maybe i am stalking you too.you haggis furtler.

pk ladies make a disorderly queue if you believe (erroneously or not) that i have stalked you across mn

despite me being gied a telling

ah niver listen

next thing you know you'll be telling me you find david tennant attractive, scottish.

dougray scott?! i'd never have suspected.

naw not davie t.dougray scott,like the movies like the packaging

shallow,but true

"Sad and pathetic that they think this is a) in any way 'glamourous' b) modelling.

That they feel any form of validation having a bunch of wankers the likes of whom even buy those tabloids leering at them.

That's pathetic and sad.

'Most are just naturally beautiful women with great bodies.'

Most I've seen are surgically enhanced with dyed blonde hair. "

What makes you think the girls themselves think that it is glamourous?! And if modelling lingerie, clothing etc isn't modelling, what is it?! As I said previously, the term 'glamour modelling' (and that term is used to refer to it by the entire modelling industry, not just the 'glamour' section) It is merely a term used by the modelling industry to categorize a certain type of modelling.

Maybe as far as the girls doing this job are concerned, they are just doing a job? One that pays a lot of money for few hours work. Why should what anyone does or doesn't do when they look at the photos concern them in the slightest?! It is just a photo, after all. Why do you assume they need validation of any sort?

How many glamour models have you seen then? Do you go out of your way to find them? Unless you do, I can't imagine you have seen that many.

And even if they did feel the need to be valdiated, were insecure or whatever else, why does that concern you?! Does it make any difference to your everyday life?!

I am spooked by the whole industry. I was approached by someone scouting for glamour models when I was doing some very boring and non-glamorous work having people take pics of my hands with pretty rings on them. She asked if I was interested and told me repeatedly how nice my figure was. Then she looked at my boobs (I was then a size 10 with 30E breasts) sceptically and added sotto voce, 'of course, you'd be better with some work done'.

I assume this is how they normally get women in - just go for someone roughly the right shape, suggest they get a boob job, and hope that some of them call back and want work. Really nasty, and I feel creepy for days after. Ick.

midori..it all comes back to money doesn't it...and if you make enough apparently you are not losing or selling yourself right?..imo wrong you are doing just that and fooling yourself if you believe otherwise..and you may feel its not damaging but it is..to society as a whole and to the women.. when women sell themselves short for a few hundred or even thousand pounds to get their breasts out..when they display themselves like meat...they are still selling themselves...and short imo

Women without boobs jobs actually get more work in the Glamour Industry in the current market, unless they are already famous. Plus, there are different markets. Lingerie companies, for example, are selling to women, and so therefore are likely to use models that wouldn't put women off buying their product (eg. Marks and Spencers etc, still termed as 'Glamour'). Obviously a different type of model to one that is going to be modelling, fetish clothing, for example. And again, on the 'porn' side of it, a model that appears in Razzle is likely to be very different to a model that appears in Hustler or Playboy.

Littlereddragon, I seriously doubt the person who approached you was from any sort of reputable agency, and just like in other types of modelling, there are good and bad in Glamour too.

Mumcentreplus, you might feel it is damaging to society as a whole, but that is only becaus epeple share your blinkered view of what a glamour model is and their reasons for doing such a job. Why would they be 'selling themselves short' anyway?! Apparently they're all a bunch of surgically enhanced thickos. What else are they going to do?!

LOL @ the 'Glamour Industry'.

These sad bams don't impact my everyday life, midori, except when a thread like this comes up and I think, 'Those women/girls are tragic, man.'

Because they are.

What are they modelling, a thong?

Gimme a break.

Glamour models - too fat and too short to be regular models.

Who would want their daughter to do that? I would not want my dd to be any kind of model. What an existence.

I especially would not want her to get her tits out for the edification of men. Look at those daft cows on the front cover of Zoo magazine with stars over their nipples. Yep, well done love, you did well at A Levels didn't you.

They are either (a) stupid girls who see getting tits out as the best option or (b) bright girls who can't be arsed to actually study for a decent career and see this as the best option, which by default makes them stupid girls as well.

Judgy me? Yep.

They don't have the right look to be regular models, either, GetOrf, IYKWIM , but Lily Cole and Erin O'Connor they're not.

Yes, true, they are usually pretty girls but no more pretty than some randomer in Tesco.

Not jaw dropping beauties like Heidi Klum or whatev.

Girls with no ambition or foresight. Why would you choose a trade which is (a) sleazy and can lead to more worrying areas e.g. porn and (b) you will be obsolete by the time you are 32. Where do you go then? What skills (other than the ability to throw your shoulders back) will you have?

What makes you think girls who glamour model don't have other qualifications?

I glamour modelled for a few years when I was younger. I was already a qualified hairdresser but then had a child, ended up single and decided that that type of work meant I could work few hours for a very decent wage and support my son finacially whilst still spending plenty of time with him. Purely a practical decision in my case. It suited me at the time.

I have since obtained and HND and am currently studying for a degree level course, so I've hardly been left all washed up, have I?!

no one's calling them names that i can see recently.

just sad, tragic and pathetic.

and no, i don't think any of them are actually pretty, because doing that makes a person look cheap and tawdry.

I am not calling them names, I am just putting across my opinion that I think it is a pretty daft life choice.

Anyway there are several posts saying that people who protest about this kind of modelling are 'jealous'.

Midori - fair enough, your choice. But would it have not been better to stick at the hairdressing, work your way up, end up running a salon or something, rather than take time out to enter a trade where you will get so little respect, and the end result is that people are looking at your tits?

If you said that I honestly wouldn't give a toss, thesecond. I don't know you. You're some random stranger on an open forum who can't spell 'aspirations'.

Meh.