"Do you have any idea what having your face on the front cover of Voge does for the ego? It seriously undermines it. I knew - as all models know - that I didn't really look like the image on the magazine cover because, like all good models, I knew how to manipulate my body to its best advantage. It's an illusion - the public never see the real person. They see the fantasy, and it's the fantasy they admire and fall in love with: the photograph, the image someone has spent hours getting together. You know that in the flesh you can never live up to it. You play the game and do the things, but when you walk out of that studio you've left the image behind. Then you have to do the hair and put on the full makeup every day so that people don't see behind the illusion. The more successfull you are as a model, the more insecure you may become, preocupied with your imperfections. When you look at other models all you see is their perfection so you ar constatly with people who, you think, are far more atrractive than you."
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