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Yo Princess, is Mommy livin vicariously thru YOU?
Yeah... that's right ya little spoiled brat... I'm talkin to YOU! When you were fresh outta diapers, mommy shelled out a few thousand bucks to buy you some pageant dresses and pay for your entry fees... shoved you into some city, county and state beauty pageants... she dools out a few hundred bucks more to buy you a full page ad in that pageant book... that guarentees you half a dozen cheezy plastic trophies above the fireplace... even thou most the time you didn't win, you ended up getting 'most photogenic'... 'best smile'... 'most congenial'... HaHa! Yep... mommy ran into a pageant director who knew how to effectively drain her checking account... and bein the vanity sucker that she is, mommy laid down for the program. But here's a heads up mommy... there's MANY more programs to come...  The newspaper hits the driveway... mommy opens it up one day and spots the ads for John Robert Powers and Barbizon... or the traveling circuses of Proscout, IMTA and Model Search America... OMG she says... I am sooooooo lucky that they're coming to our home town... makin a 'special trip' just to interview and enroll my future movie star and supermodel daughter. Yep... mommy's bitten by the vanity bug again... draggin your cute little ass down to the local hotel. And what does she hear?... Hey Mrs. Mommy... your daughter has MOUNTAINS of potential... AND... we can guarentee her exclusive interviews with the top agents and casting directors in our next '5000 contestant' competition. Awwwww... tis tis... you mean like 98% of the rest of the contestants, she received ZERO callbacks? Oh well... on behalf of our bottom feeding director, we'd like to thank you for your $500 (non-refundable) deposit and your $1000 for enrollment fees... Yep... mommy got jacked up again. And while you've just reached the ripe old age of 16, it's finally YOUR MOMMY who's gettin an education of just how gullable she's been, and just how easy it is for the polished scammers of this industry to max out her Visa card. And come on... mommy can't blame YOU... I mean hey... you're cute little face was just goin along for the ride... right?... OK... maybe there's a few hundred 'little princesses' in Model Mayhem here that have experienced the lifestyle above... and my guess is... you're NOT going to chime in on this thread to admit it... or ARE YOU?... AND... I'm willing to bet... there's a healthy group of photographers here who've ran into 'the little princess' described above. Tell me about her guys... and it's 'fess up' time little princess... if you DARE... Feb 24 06 04:29 pm Link I want the woooooorld. and I want a squirrel Feb 24 06 04:32 pm Link Sirensong wrote: Allllllllright... the first 'little princess' chimes in. NEXT! Feb 24 06 04:34 pm Link My mom took me and my sister to one of those pageant thingys once..but turns out we were too poor to pay for the cost and too lazy to go walk around for donations so there went the idea..hahaha. ...next Feb 24 06 04:35 pm Link My mom thought pageants were rigged and never let me do them My dad took me to Barbizons and we left after they told us how much it would cost Feb 24 06 04:38 pm Link My middle name means princess, does that count?  Feb 24 06 04:38 pm Link I haven't met any little princesses but when my daughter was two or three, I forget exactly, I was approached in the mall by this well dressed, attractive woman going "Oh, that child! That child! Which of you is her mother?" (I was with my sister and another friend). I identified myself as her mother and she handed me a card for a modeling agency. I forget the name of it now. She wanted me to bring my kid in, etc. I took the card, smiled and said thank you and then never looked at it again. Yeah, I thought I had the most beautiful kid in the world but, gah. I could not imagine putting her through that. Feb 24 06 04:38 pm Link Oh god no, I didn't even know there was a child pageant circuit until Jon Benet died and they did an expose on the news...lol. Feb 24 06 04:39 pm Link double post monster was here. Feb 24 06 04:43 pm Link I tried and tried. No dice. My tattoos got in the way. Blasphemy I tell you. Feb 24 06 04:43 pm Link i did babrbizon *blushes* but im not even joining the agency. i may be in canadas top model, and am talking to MMI about possibly joining their agency (its all legit and i've checked them out soundly this time) but the thing is, i do knwo that if i adnt gone to barbizon i wouldnt be as interested in modeling, but no, never again. i also made alot of really good friends that i wouldnt have met so that was a bonus. im also going to apy my parents back for it when i can. bt yeah, it wasnt even a thought of mine or my parents (i never thought i was pretty enough) but i think ill do ok. Feb 24 06 04:44 pm Link Susi wrote: I grew up in Texas. They were EVERYWHERE. I never knew anyone who was in them but we all knew they existed. Those things have always fascinated and horrified me both. Feb 24 06 04:44 pm Link Never been in a pagent or modeling school in my life... My mom thinks everything is a scam unless proven otherwise. Feb 24 06 04:46 pm Link Nemi wrote: BINGO... princess number 2... NEXT! Feb 24 06 04:46 pm Link Wow... all these models chimin in... but... not a SINGLE photographer... amazing! Come on guys... you KNOW you've dealt with at least ONE of the princesses before... Feb 24 06 05:03 pm Link My mom never thought I was a good looking child...  Feb 24 06 05:15 pm Link Susi wrote: Yeah... the 'Jon Benet Case' definitely shined a light on that 'interesting industry' fur sure... Feb 24 06 06:21 pm Link I photoed the snotty little six year old princess of the 40-something bleached blonde bitch my dad was dating. We went on the cheap-I hand proccessed the B&W all night and ran the color thru one hour then down to the color lab for 8x's for her book-a plain old manilla photo album. She took First place, Best overall, Best protfolio and Most photogenic. Came home with a sh-tload of trohpies and crowns. I got a 'Thank You' card and the dad threw the GF out a few months later so I never saw them again. Feb 24 06 06:46 pm Link WhiteBears Visions wrote: A 'Thank You Card'?!?!?!?!?!... ROTFLMAO... dude... you coulda slamdunked the princesses' mommy for a few hundred bucks EASY... where was your head?... Feb 24 06 06:56 pm Link Select Models wrote: No I really couldn't. I had moved back to my dad's after several eye surgeries that left me blind in one eye and 20/200 in the other. I couldn't drive or work or do shit. It was his GF so it was a favor to him. C'est La vie. Feb 24 06 07:01 pm Link we've always been skint *giggles* and i only started modellin in 2005 because modelling is brilliant as it kinda captures you and puts you down as history, something you can look back on and see how you have changed over the years. The body is not something people should be ashamed of, it is all natural and i find people cannot decipher the difference between nudity and porn. Although there is a thin line, i would define porn as engaging in sexual acts with oneself or others, as opposed to nudity which is merely the human body as natural as it is. lol rant again!!!! heheh: and i jus got my first ever interview!! so im kinda happy, besides id rather have no credits on here than all the assholes who are wantin me to do cheap tacky work, were humans and we deserve respect! " http://www.troublepunk.com/profile-nola-1.html " Feb 24 06 07:08 pm Link WhiteBears Visions wrote: Interesting... looks to me like your dad is the only one that scored on that deal... C'est La Vie fur sure... Feb 24 06 07:08 pm Link oh and i dont think the term 'bitch' should be flattered with a context definition change to 'princess' -just my opinion, i dont think people like that deserve to be classed as anything highly royal! Feb 24 06 07:09 pm Link I was at a big hotel once where a little girl pageant was going on. These girls couldnt have been more than 8-10-12 years old, all glammed out in heavy makeup, gowns and such and they were walking through the motel and there were these guys making EXTREMELY innapropriate comments directly to some of the little girls. I wanted to deck the guys. What was worse is the mothers who smiled at the guys and thanked them for the compliments and told their little girl to thank them too! Feb 24 06 07:10 pm Link Magnolia or Nola wrote: Well... excuse me girlfren... but you may be confusing MM with OMP... Feb 24 06 07:13 pm Link Select Models wrote: OMP? :S Feb 24 06 07:14 pm Link Select Models wrote: You cant keep MM from becoming like OMP unless you screen every photographer or GWC and all the emails they send lol. The same issues people have with OMP are slowly becoming more and more common here. There is this thing called the law of averages.The more people you get on here, the more assholes you will have on here. Feb 24 06 07:15 pm Link Glamour Boulevard wrote: I absolutely agree! Feb 24 06 07:16 pm Link The 1500 bucks you mention is also very low compared to some. Some photographers and agencies see an agency mommy and the prices go up. JRP totally soaked this pair of sisters I know who are absolutely gorgeous, almost twins, from haiti. Tall, beautiful skin and great shapes. They both put the naomi campbells and tyra banks` of the fashion world to shame. Even my fiance, who draws and sculpts mainly females was actually speechless when they came to discuss a shoot with me and eventually managed a "wow, oh my god". They ripped mom and dad off of 20 grand for class fees and a portfolio which consisted of about 10 shots each over a period of 2 years and NO modeling jobs. Feb 24 06 07:23 pm Link Magnolia or Nola wrote: fill you in?how so? Feb 24 06 07:26 pm Link Glamour Boulevard wrote: ok WHAT is ''OMP''? Feb 24 06 07:29 pm Link Glamour Boulevard wrote: Ah... I dont think so. At least you can send an e-mail here on MM without it being edited by the management, as the phrase 'Model Mayhem' is automatically removed from ALL communications... Feb 24 06 07:30 pm Link 20K????? I'm happy when one of my creations goes for a couple of grand in a gallery. And that's not everyday and certainly not every image. Need to sell one for a new Digi SLR. Maybe I should start jacking idiots for big $$. Nah-I can't even be mean to my roomies cat when he gets my boxer in trouble intentionally. Feb 24 06 07:34 pm Link Magnolia or Nola wrote: Hey... that's OK girlfren... U aint missin much. It's a scam site I frequently refer to as 'Obnoxious Management Place'... Feb 24 06 07:40 pm Link Select Models wrote: yea, they have a program that prohibits use of urls in their emails, I can deal with that. it cuts down on the advertising.I would do the same thing if I was making money from my site. I see MM doing the same thing eventually. It surely would prevent people from being able to directly place a website url in a thread during a trashing thread like what happens on here a lot which could actually get MM in legal trouble. which is the main reason there is a no bashing rule of OMP and other sites. This is another reason OMP does not allow other website urls mentioned in their emails and threads. they want no part of possible bashing of another site which could get them sued. And there is one final reason Model Mayhem is automatically removed from OMP threads and emails but im tired of beating that horse so I wont even get into it. Feb 24 06 07:40 pm Link Select Models wrote: okies, thanks hunny!!!! Feb 24 06 07:43 pm Link Magnolia or Nola wrote: onemodelplace.com Feb 24 06 07:43 pm Link yea my mom stuck me in one once and i refused to smile or do the talent so i lost... my way of making a statement... LMAO Feb 24 06 07:49 pm Link Sorry to disappoint you but I've never done a pageant, been to Barbie-zon or John Roberts Powers. My Mom shelled out a few thousand on 8 years of dance lessons though...does that count???LOL I couldn't catch or throw so she put my little hyperactive butt in dance lessons...probably to get some rest!LOL Feb 24 06 07:52 pm Link Jackie Vallejo wrote: Yessssssssss... U go girlfren... rage against the machine... NEXT... Feb 24 06 07:58 pm Link |
