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Every dream has a price, and if your dream is to become a model, you should know that from the beginning.
A common fallacy for many people who aren't involved in the business is that they think that modeling is some kind of a free ride. To the outsider's mind,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they assume that anyone who succeeds as a model has simply had the good fortune to be born tall, thin and beautiful, and then all they have to do is just "show up".
This is probably the number one myth about modeling and it couldn't be further from the truth.
Modeling is not a hobby and it's not even a job. Modeling, the kind of modeling I'm talking about,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is a profession. And as with all professions, there are standards of excellence and definite steps to success.
Are you willing to pay the price required of you to become a model? And do you know what that price is for you?
It will be different for everyone of course. But at the top of the list would be the dedication to living an extremely healthy lifestyle.
A healthy lifestyle means regular exercise,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], getting enough sleep and eating properly. It does not mean starving yourself, and it does mean nourishing yourself in a balanced way.
It means keeping your body at its most fit. It also means no smoking. And alcohol on rare occasions, if ever. And it goes without saying that drugs have absolutely no place in a healthy body and a healthy mind.
If you're not currently living a very healthy lifestyle, you're going to have to seriously ask yourself just how much you want this dream, because it is definitely one of the first prices you'll be expected to pay.
Your entry price may also include working your way up the career ladder, accepting less glamorous work in exchange for developing a portfolio that will later get you better jobs.
While your friends back home are doing normal teenage things like hanging out at the beach or the mall, you'll be on castings, beating the pavement, often with aching feet and a bruised ego.
You may even be the subject of ridicule from people, and sometimes from the people closest to you or from those you want to please the most.
You'll probably have to wrestle with your own self-doubts and discouragement at times. And even when you're feeling at your lowest, you're going to have to do casting after casting,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], each and every time with renewed enthusiasm and energy.
You'll have to get up brutally early while people are coming at you from all sides, fixing your hair, doing your makeup,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], having you try on the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]-all before the sun's up.
You might be wearing a ski [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] in sweltering heat or a [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] on the beach in December. You may be holding the same uncomfortable pose over and over under hot lights, or doing a runway show in shoes so tight they'll stop your circulation.
And whatever it is, you've got to make it new and alive and fantastic every time for your clients.
All of this demands an enormous amount of self-discipline and dedication to your goal. If you don't have it you won't make it as a model over the long term, and especially not at the higher end of this business. It's just that simple.
But if you're willing to pay the price asked of you in exchange for reaching your dream you may soon discover something very important:
The price you paid was actually very small indeed compared with the reward. Or as motivational speaker Zig Ziglar puts it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],
"You do not pay the price of success; you enjoy the price of success."
The manageress and a guy behind a till were the only people in the shop and I made my way to the walk-in beer fridge at the back. Over the months they had got to know me well and no doubt had their own thoughts about me. But I was probably one of their best customers so they always treated me politely. They could not have failed to notice the huge amounts of booze that I was buying.As I made my way to the beer fridge the shop assistant appeared out of nowhere and greeted me. "Sawubona," he said. He seemed to stare right into my very soul. I wondered what was he thinking. He sometimes helped me to the car and today would be no different. No doubt I was a shock to him as well. Maybe I was too paranoid. Sure I was gaunt, filthy and sickly-looking but then maybe there were plenty of people like me coming in and out of the bottle store every day. Maybe all that intrigued them was where the money was coming from. That must be a mystery as I looked like a typical down and out. Bugger it. Let them ponder.
The cold beer fridge revived me a little and I always stayed a couple of minutes longer than necessary. I found my beer and asked the assistant to help me carry the case to the till. There I fumbled for the money and handed it over to the guy. He remained silent and passed me the change which I gave to the assistant. He mumbled a quiet "Siyabonga," and carried the case to the car.I felt that I had no choice any more. The liquor consumed all my mental and physical energy. The people who came and went in my life saw me as a babbling wreck. I comforted myself with the thought that they should see me when I was deprived of my beers.I stopped at the fridge long enough to sink a cold one and then walked into the office. My entrance went unnoticed and only Mary looked up and asked how I was feeling. Plonking myself down, I couldn't fail to notice that it had turned into a lovely day.