When I was 16, I made my first contribution to the fashion industry during my brief career as a teen model/actress on the local Philadelphia area circuit.  One day in 10th Grade, a local modeling agent came into my school on Career Day and asked for my name and number.  I didn’t think much of it at the time.  Having been invisible all through grade school and junior high, I mostly kept to myself in high school.  I’d just quit ballet and never made a high school sports team.  So I spent most of my time getting papers done weeks in advance for my AP English classes and writing for my high school paper.

High school and everything before that was an awkward time.  I didn’t really come into my own until college.  So you can imagine how surprised I was when the agent called me that night and asked to talk to my Mom.  She said she liked my “look” and asked if my Mom and I wanted to come into her office and talk to her about modeling.  We went in the next day where she told us all about the world of head shots, comp cards, go sees, and portfolios.  At 5’4, I was nowhere near the minimum height to walk the runway.  So I’d have to be a model/actress.  It sounded like fun so I gave it a shot.  Above are some of the photos I took for my portfolio.  It was fun while it lasted, but I was really more into school than being a commercial print model.  However, I often wonder what would have happened had I stuck with it.