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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh cut the crap.
The most successful models are tall, thin and beautiful and can take great pictures.

The unfortunate looking ones are nepo babies . And I'm going to guess she's not a nepo baby. Or they sleep their way to the top. It's not some magical Cinderella story

But op there really isn't anything for you to say. You can ask general  1 or 2 general questions  like where the photoshoot was or a particular outfit. Add some stock phrases Look at that ! How about that!  You can ask a non related modeling question is Larla still into sailing o remember she loved that and was so good at it. Then change the subject.

Not much more to say unless you think mom is being taken in my scams .
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Photogenic means a lot of different things. It can mean Christy Turlington but it can also mean Jack Black -- both those people are photogenic, in really different ways.

There are also a decent number of fashion models who just do runway and don't do very little commercial or editorial work, but get booked for shows because they are the requisite height and weight and can take the "look" a designer is going for, which is often not "pretty."

There is also a whole world of models who look like regular people and do commercial work. It's like a parallel to character actors (and indeed some people work as both character actors and models) -- they aren't necessarily stunningly beautiful, but they might have a certain aesthetic that appeals to certain advertisers. Think of the people you see in ads for furniture or crackers or board games. Are these people tall, thin, and strikingly beautiful? No, they might look wholesome, or discerning, or goofy, depending on the product and the concept behind the ad. Well those are all models. I think some people assume they are all random people plucked off the street but nope. An agency held a casting and looked at a bunch of people with similar looks and picked that one.

This can be especially true for children. Lots of child models never do anything even remotely resembling fashion modeling, either as kids or adults. There's actually pretty limited fashion work for kids -- mostly catalog work and then some ad campaigns. No runway, and very little editorial except when kids are used in adult magazine shoots. Most modeling work for kids is in ads.

Sometimes a kid can have a successful few years of modeling because they have really charming curly hair, or great coloring with freckles, or (and this is actually a huge one) they have an ambiguous racial appearance and thus can be cast in a wide variety of family shoots. And actually some of the biggest factors for kids in terms of booking modeling jobs is being able to take direction, having good time availability, and having parents/handlers who make everyone else's job easier instead of harder.

I am not a huge fan of making kids work except in rare situations where the kids are genuinely self driven to do something (which could be the case here, we don't know). But OP is being so obnoxious about this that honestly I hope her friend's kid has a good run with modeling, makes some money for college, and OP has to eat her words. It's really none of her business.[/quote]
What a thoughtful and informative answer. Hopefully the OP will take read it and reconsider her initial reaction.[/quote]
+1 I love when a knowledgeable PP like this chimes in and sets a tone worth following. [/quote]

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