Category: Model Industry News

15-Day Old Baby Rescued from Rubble in Haiti »

From BettyConfidential.com
The infant survived for an entire week without food or water.
-April Daniels Hussar

In a true miracle, rescuers discovered a 15-day-old baby alive in the rubble of her home a full week after the earthquake in Haiti destroyed the house.
Her mother, 22-year-old Michelene Joassaint, said she had put baby Elisabeth down for a nap on [...]

Reese Witherspoon Says It’s Tough Being a Female »

From BettyConfidential.com
The actress doesn’t enjoy the pressures placed on the female population.  -Carolyn French

Cutie pie Reese Witherspoon finds it rather challenging to be a woman. Like, join the club, right?
Reese feels somewhat boxed in by society’s view of how a female should act, and she knows that at the end of the day it all [...]

** SCARY ** The Plastic Surgery iPhone App Is Here »

From Shine.com

Honestly, I don’t know whether to be horrified by this new iPhone App, or run out and buy an iPhone just so I can use the App. What is it? Why, it’s the iSurgeon, “an innovative App … which combines personal image modification with high tech gaming features.” Huh?
Basically, it does two things: One, [...]

Plus-size models are better role models? Fat chance! »

From The NY Post
“A-PLUS” ran the headline of a Post story the other day that cheered a fashion magazine’s decision to run pictures of overweight models. So. Hooray for fatties, right? Or maybe we are expected to praise the magazine’s path-breaking and revolutionary decision to be only the ten thousandth magazine to do a (the [...]

Is Heidi Montag Addicted to Plastic Surgery? »

From BettyConfidential.com
In case you haven’t noticed, the blonde bombshell has made a habit out of going under the knife.  -Carolyn French

At the end of November reality star/singer Heidi Montag continued her quest to become “the best me” by hopping on an operating table to receive 10 plastic-surgery makeovers (in one day).
The 23-year-old Hills beauty opens [...]

Are Temporary Tattoos The Next Big Thing In Modeling & Advertising? »

From Shine.com

How to Wear Winter Florals!
Anything Chanel seems to garner the sort of attention that results in immediate obsession and desire. The latest is a collection of transfer tattoos that first appeared on their spring/summer 2010 runway. For all of us who want a tattoo, but can’t stomach the needles or the permanence, Chanel [...]

Former Miss Argentina dies after plastic surgery »

From CNN.com
A former Miss Argentina died Sunday after complications arising from plastic surgery, the official Telam news agency said.
Solange Magnano, 37, died in a hospital after being transferred from a clinic where she underwent an elective surgery on her buttocks on Wednesday, the agency reported.
Magnano ran her own modeling agency in Argentina, and had been [...]

Unrealistic Expectations Always In Fashion – The Push For “Real” Women »

From Regan McMahon / SFGate.com
Germany’s most popular women’s magazine, Brigitte, recently announced that starting next year, it would ban professional models from its pages to combat the glorification of ultra-thin women, and use “real” women instead.

Also in October, Polo Ralph Lauren sparked international outrage by Photoshopping out the true girth of size 4 model Filippa [...]

Kate Moss Slammed for Skinny Comments »

By Lindsay Robertson / OMG
Groups representing the anti-eating-disorder movement in the U.K. are blasting supermodel Kate Moss for a seemingly offhand remark she made in a recent interview with the fashion website WWD. When asked about her personal motto, Moss said: “There are loads. There’s ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.’ That’s one of them. You try [...]

Top South Korean model Daul Kim found dead »

From The BBC
South Korean model Daul Kim has been found dead at her apartment in Paris.
Reports say the 20-year-old could have killed herself, but officials have yet to confirm the cause of death.
Ms Kim has made appearances at fashion weeks around the world, modelling for leading designers, including Chanel and Alexander McQueen.
South Korea has the [...]