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Do I Have to Take My Clothes Off to be a Model
Cristina Dehart
ExploreModeling.com
About nudity, is nudity necessary in this business? There is a reality show out right now which I will not name that says it is an absolute must, can not be a model unless you are willing to strip your clothes off and that is a lie. That is a lie. I mean, you know, I have been doing this for a long time and have never been asked to take my clothes off or ever been told by my agency that I have to do that.
Jobs like that—there are jobs like that that requires nudity. There are jobs that they want, especially fashion jobs that will require that type of compromising situation and there are models that have no problems doing it and would like to do it and I am saying nothing about them. That is great. I have had done jobs like that near, job that you see in there that might close, I will had a bikini on but it looks like I am nude and that may make with someone feeling uncomfortable to do that type of job. You do not have to do it and your agency will not, not take you if you do not want to do it. You know, when you take—when an agency decides to take you, never have I been asked, “Will you do nudity?” Never in my career if I have been asked, “will you do nudity, if you would not do it, I can not represent you?”
That is a sensational thing someone has put out there to get ratings on television but I think what is sad about that is there are a lot of young girls that would like to model but then they do not want to be put in that position so they decided not to pursue it because they now believe that you have to do that.
They are—when you get with an agency, they sit down and they will have you sign or fill out a form with al your stats and your dress and all of that and usually on that it says are you willing to do the following; smoking, are you willing to do smoking ads? Some people do not want to do those. Fur, do you have anything against fur? Nudity, lingerie, bathing suits, those types of things. So, and all you have to do, they check yes or no and then that goes into their data base and when they are going to do a submission to a client they will basically will pull all those that are willing to do it and al those that do not have to. It is not that something that you have ever, I have never been pressured, I have never—and when you go to a casting they usually tell you, this is what it involves, this is what you have to do and it is that simple. You do not have to do anything like that. You can work very successfully I the industry without ever doing anything that compromises your values or how you feel.
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