Video: The real life events behind my mystery/thriller

February 12, 2017.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Did you know that the novel Jaws was based on a true story? Yeah. I didn’t want to know that either (goodbye swimming FOREVER). There is nothing to make a creepy story even creepier than knowing IT ACTUALLY happened. In honour of Mystery Thriller Week, I have put together this vid to share the real […]

Book Review: Do You Want to be a Model?, a fashion memoir by Ines Crnokrak Skerlic

November 7, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

There is something totally fascinating about seeing bad things happen to pretty people–especially when there is tons of gore involved. Enter Do You Want to be a Model?, the real-life story of a young Serbian teen navigating her way through the stuff of fashion nightmares–from model apartments that would make your skin crawl (literally) to embezzlement-prone fashion agents with a […]

Film Review: The Model

October 14, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

The Model, directed by Danish filmmaker Mads Matthiesen, is about an emerging model’s dark journey into the Paris fashion industry. The main character, a 16-year old Danish girl named Emma, spins out of control after getting dumped by her photographer boyfriend, and winds up living her worst nightmare. As you might have noticed by now, I’m a bit […]

5 Real-life Murders That Inspired My Novel, The Tokyo Covergirls

September 27, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

The night before I left for Tokyo, one of my friends, Andrea, burst into tears. I was 16 years old and was moving by myself to one of the world’s biggest cities to work as a fashion model. I don’t know what horror story was running through her mind at the time, she only told me she […]

Book Review: The Stories Models Never Tell

September 18, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

Because nothing says fabulous like strutting the runway in a remote desert compound where the armed guards are so FREAKING terrifying that you’d rather pee in a bottle than ask to use the loo. Enter the The Stories Models Never Tell, a memoir written and published by former model Christine Hart. The book follows Hart’s career in […]

Who’s That Girl? The Secret Identity of my Cover Girl

September 16, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

A lot of people have asked me if the face on the cover of my book, The Tokyo Cover Girls belongs to me. I get it. With my youthful skin and sleek physique, I basically look like I’m still a teenager. Alas, I thought I should probably give credit to my cover model and introduce […]

5 Fashion Models with Secret Assassin Skills

August 25, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

A killer smile can only get a girl so far. These five fashionistas are not only amazingly gorgeous but possess very unique and potentially lethal skills. Let’s just should I ever need to put together an Ocean’s 11 style celebrity/assassination team (which I kind of hope I don’t because I don’t deal well with those kind of […]

5 Fashion Models Killed (or almost) by Photo Shoots

August 14, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

Shooting a Vogue cover sounds like a glamorous job but what happened to these girls was more horror show than haute couture! In a weird twist, #4 is almost the exact same thing that happened in one of the scenes in my novel, The Tokyo Cover Girls! Either that is some weird coincidence or I’m starting to […]

Who’s that girl? Test your fashion model know-how

August 5, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

So I was at my local thrift store when I stumbled upon this 80’s-era knitting magazine featuring a 19-year old version of one of the fashion world’s most iconic fashion models. But the really surprising part? Despite being totally dated, these styles are still pretty awesome–YES THOSE ARE ORANGE FISHNET GLOVES!! Is she going to […]