04/08/2026
Today’s episode of:
Never Give Up on Your Dreams! -‘cause they really can come true!
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When I became a teenager, I begged my parents to sign me up at Barbizon, a modeling agency that trained and claimed to make you into a professional model. My parents finally drove me to the interview, but after, my mom felt uncomfortable to sign me up because she wanted to keep me safe from any kind of “harassment”, at such a young age. And, even tho, at that moment, I did not understand her reason, I was upset and hurt, that I would miss the opportunity to train to be a model like the commercials showed on TV. So, I asked her to please buy me Vogue Magazines instead, and I kept myself occupied dreaming of becoming a model, I spent hours afterschool looking at the way models would pose on high fashion magazines and I would practice their poses in front of the mirror. I never gave up and when I turned 18, I went for it !Here’s a sneak peek of my modeling days and how lucky I felt when I was booked for my first professional run way show as a model for Fashion Show at Bayside! Forever grateful to my mom for keeping me safe, and for Tom, my first photographer that believed in me!
PS: At the same time, I created a mini magazine of all the articles and cut outs of all the fashion, beauty tips and health advice and constructed it together and called it Teen Vogue . I mailed it to at the main offices and never heard back. Later, I see the smaller size Vogues at the magazine aisles . 🤯 Maybe, I’ll try to reach out again and see if my little magazine is up, framed on their walls! 🤩😁
