I don't think ordinary people will ever get how hard it is to be a model. For regular "unphotographed" people of the world. Modeling will forever be about smiling, looking pretty and then somehow making tons of money. 

Wouldn't that be great if it were really the truth? 

The truth is that modeling is hard work. It's very hard work in a million different ways you never thought possible. It's hardly about just smiling and being pretty. It's about being able to control your body, control your moods and personality. It's about having physical stamina, endurance, and patience. It's also about having unshakable confidence, extrodinary luck and openmindedness about the world. Being smart isn't always a requisit, but it certainlly helps. Succesfull models speak multiple languages and are well versed in popular culture. A succesfull model is a hyper-social animal. Her/his talent is a keen understanding of people and peoples hopes/dreams/perceptions of the world. 

It's much more than just a smile and pretty face. It's 4am call times, hours in makeup, being naked in sub-zero tempertures. It's being back at the airport before you've even had a chance to figure out where it is that you've been. Lots of travel, and then suddenly- no travel at all. It's a life in constant flux. When you do castings, it's a seperate job interview 20 times a day. Every day but when you're working.  

To make it, to trully make it, you need so many things. In the end of course, what you really need is luck and endurance. You need the endurance to hold in there, to keep going when it seems to all be for nothing. You need the luck to make it. Because the truth is, you can be patient, work hard, and it will come. But it also might never come either. 

If you have the luck, then you just need the endurance. You need to be able to endure the industry, endure the work, endure the pressure, and endure the success. It's not enough to just 'want it' to make it. It's much, much more than that. You need to want it. Need it and sacrifice for it. But it's also more than as well. To make it, you also need to *understand it*. 

And thats what I'm here to do. The rest is up to you.