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modeling... what do u think?

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my friends and my family tell me that I'm underweight. even my bf says I need to "get wider", but I still see myself as fat. not all of me. I'm not stupid. but i know I need to work out and eat better and even though people keep telling me to gain weight I don't want to.
last night a modeling scout came up to me when i was with my friends and was talking to me about modeling. now i'm even more paranoid. I don't really want to be a model. i think it'd be ok, but to me it would just be a way to get money for college and a car and buy stuff for my friends and family. so i see these models and i know that i can't so that and i hate my body and am so self conscious. i think that if i start modeling I might make myself lose even more weight (i'm already 15 pounds underweight) and I don't want to hurt myself.
how do i make myself stop starving myself?
should i even try it?
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DO NOT DO IT!!!!!

No money in the world is worth putting yourself under any more pressure/stress about your image. Some of the strongest most beautiful women develop eating disorders due to the pressure they receive from their agents, photographers, stylists, makeup artists, assistants...the list goes on. I work in the photography industry and I can't tell you how many people I've seen spiral downward.

DO address your Anorexia. DON'T add to it.
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You definately don't want to go down the starving road..the only place it leads you to is hurt,pain and possibly death. Not college nad happiness....You are beautiful in your own unique way and no one can take that away or say any different....learn to love yourself....you can and it feels good inside...you got what you got for a reason...and thats wonderful..don't starve yourself....life has many great things in store so don't get side tracked with an ED.....Jenny
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Don't model. You say yourself it will drag you down even more. And yes you should try to stop starving yourself. You'll be a lot happier. See a nutritionist and maybe therapist. Your profile doesn't say that you have an ED but it sure sounds like it, so get some help.
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I want to be a model. I was told by a talent scout that I would have to gain at least 20 pounds. She said that the industry is starting to change and extremely thin models are no longer "in". But even if this is true it's probably not the best thing to get into if you already have body image issues. Another thing that kinda sucks about the industry is that if your photos are not perfect, they touch them up. I had pictures taken for my comp card and I was told that if there were any flaws they would touch them up. When I got my pictures back I was like "wow, they really made me look pretty. I don't look that pretty in real life." So when you see pitures of models in magazines, they really don't look that perfect in real life.
missyS
missyS
i think that modeling would be a nice way to make money...but if u think that it will affect ur health negatively then i would say dont do it..ur health is priceless...and for this reason, i think that u should try to start feeding ur body more and stop starving urself...easier said than done i know...im in the same boat
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That industry SUCKS.
I did a one week thing at an agency, when I was just coming off my first bout of anorexia. They said I had a good look, I could do well, etc... And then started talking about how many inches I needed to lose. They asked me to write down everything I ate, they took my measurements right in front of the other girls...
I'm 14.
It was not a healthy experience, it just panicked me.
Now, they've called at least once or twice in the last month because they would like me to do some acting with them.
I haven't called back.
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