Exposing (insta) Lies: Five Models Confess the Truth about their Instagram Addictions

November 29, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

We all like getting likes, right? Sadly, for fashion models collecting Instagram followers isn’t just a hobby but something they are forced to do to promote their careers. The result is a lot of pretty pictures that hide a much darker reality. These five models are sharing the truth about Instagram and the modelling life. 1. Essena […]

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 […]

My First Official Review

June 6, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

Was it lovely when my mother-in-law phoned to let me know she had thoroughly enjoyed my novel? Sure. Did I get a bit of a high every time my writing group complimented me on an excerpt. Hell, yeah. BUT THERE IS NOTHING QUITE AS AWESOME feeling as getting a positive review from a complete stranger–especially […]

Facing Old Fears to Save Lost Sweaters

August 30, 2015.Reading time 1 minute.

I swore I would never do it again. But, when my friend cancelled at the last minute a couple weeks ago, old sweaters and my mom were counting on me so I had not choice but to brave the camera after 20 years in retirement. All the hats posted on Bricolage Hats are made out of old wool sweaters, making […]

Things that inspire me to write #66: Linda Evangelista

November 22, 2012.Reading time 1 minute.

When I was sixteen I worked as a fashion model, spending months at a time in Asia’s catologue. Back then, I used to follow the careers of women like Linda Evangelista with envious adoration. She was a goddess to me, a model of the highest statue whose success I always believed was based on her killer cat eyes and towering […]

Things that inspire me to write #84: Kate Moss

November 4, 2012.Reading time less than 1 minute.

In a recent Vanity Fair interview Kate Moss recently confessed to all the emotional turmoil and anxiety she suffered during her early modeling career. For someone who has for so long been presented as the epitome of physical perfection, it took a lot courage to admit that in truth, she felt far from that. So […]