Hannah, 30 years old, ex model
A tall blonde with blue eyes, Hannah does not go unnoticed despite her more neutral style of dress than she wore on the catwalk. In jeans, sweater and tennis, she gives us her memories, which brought her on the catwalks of New York and Milan.
"I started by chance, my boyfriend at the time was model and it was by accompanying him one day to his agency that the director of this one offered me to work for him. I immediately accepted because for me, who was 16 years old, to be model meant to travel! "
Reconcile two lives
Everything then goes very quickly for the young woman, who tries somehow to reconcile her studies and parades. "My mother did not see a very good thing in this activity that sometimes made me miss classes, I had to work twice as much as the others to stay at the level, and then the other students jealoused me a lot. did not help anything. "It's true that being a supermodel is a job that makes teenage girls dream, but strangely Hannah never thought about it. "For me, it was not a girl's dream, I've always been more attracted to music, for example, but once integrated into this world, I really liked it. It was different, we play more a role, while during the shows, we really go crazy, it's the contact with the public, the adrenaline rises, I marched around the world, every time it's so intense! "
Self-esteem questioned
But this jet-setter life also has less good sides. The drugs or alcohol are quite present. "It's not a generality, but it's true that when you travel, you go out after shows or photo shoots, and in nightclubs, you rarely pay for drinks. Then the competition is omnipresent. "For this very slim young woman, the most difficult aspect of this job is to be always perfect. "It's nice to be detachment, our image obsesses us ... In the locker room we obviously see the others mannequins naked, we are always bigger or less firm ... Maybe that's why there are some anorexic girls. The pressure does not come necessarily agencies, even if the castings are obviously based on our physical only! But the most important pressure comes from ourselves. "
A parallel world
When we talk about Madrid, where the skinny women were not allowed to parade, Hannah exclaims: "It's great, it will not stop fashion magazines from circulating in the hands of teenage girls, but less, an action is asked, and if it can raise public awareness, or even one person, it's already won. "Hannah now works in music, his first passion. She keeps these six years of fashion a very pleasant memory. "The important thing is to do this job with lightness. Nevertheless, it is a universe that I felt to have gone around, hence my decision to stop. Because it's a parallel world, it's all but real life! We must be aware that it is ephemeral, we must make the most of the trips and meetings we do. And even so often, compared to the latter, or people do not talk to us because we are supposedly inaccessible, or they take us for real pears! "Today in the music and seeing her smile, we have no trouble believing that Hannah's conversion took place in the greatest harmony.
