Model agency for children

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

When I close my eyes, I immediately see my baby on the podium. Here she comes out, and the hall freezes, each next step is accompanied by the longed breath of men and the envious hiss of women. She is beautiful. And this is not my humble maternal ego. This is worldwide and nationwide recognition. Do you think you can dream of something bigger?

True, I do not suffer from manilovism. I have even consulted with a psychologist. Here's what she said to me: "I respect parents who help their daughters to break into people. Now you can get a higher education, but what will await you? A beggarly salary of $ 200? How can you live on this money?"

By promoting your child in the modeling business, you help him make useful connections. Self-esteem increases in young models. I consulted one very thin girl with a big nose, and advised my mother to send her to a modeling agency. All complexes disappeared like a hand.

And then we all want to get married well. Men love girls who can present themselves. So, if it doesn't work out with the modeling business, the daughter will simply find a decent husband."

What are the agencies

The heads of schools and agencies themselves do not consider the direction of the children's modeling business to be profitable, and therefore they either cheat, bringing joy to customers and bring themselves profit, or they do it as another area of work, or disguise something similar to a modeling agency under it, for example, children's vocal studio.

The most serious modeling agencies for children at the leading fashion houses. They are vitally interested in children: they need to raise a shift, show youth collections, and take away bread from competitors too. Vyacheslav Zaitsev's modeling agency works with children from 7 to 13 years old. The main thing for them in the selection is the desire of the child. You come on the day of recruitment for the casting. Each child walks along the podium and Vyacheslav Mikhailovich personally selects who to take and who not. The selected three months are engaged and undergo a course in choreography, mastery on the podium, and plastic. Three months cost $ 300. You will not be given any promises, but if a child demonstrates abilities in the learning process, he is taken to the fashion theater at the house, which is directed by Marina Dorogyan.

The second type of modeling agency is children's schools. It is impossible to call them in their pure form a "forge of models". To a greater or lesser extent, walking on the catwalk is just an appendage. They will teach you how to swing your hips, and be natural, and move beautifully. Leaders will unanimously say to a fanatical mother that it is impossible to teach something and achieve something in three months. It is better to send the child to practice at once for 7-9 years. It all depends on what time to start.

During the screenings, teachers pay attention not to the figure and not the type of face, but to the sparkle in the eyes. If a child wants to study, he is suitable. They have no goal of teaching a child to swing their hips on the podium, like an adult aunt. Girls and boys should be natural and move beautifully, organically, and not right. Based on the foregoing, they build their work not so much on organizing fashion shows, as on staging the show. The training program includes fashion shows, choreography with a lesson at the barre and on pointe, acting. Children dance step, juggle. By the way, when children are asked about their future work, they say that they would like to become surgeons, veterinarians, donors, and only a small percentage wants to work in show business.

There are also purely theatrical schools. For example, not so long ago, Natalia Krachkovskaya's school of television skill, which was well-known. Children were recruited there without complexes, free and emancipated, and most importantly, with money parents. Tuition grew to $ 3,000 per month. School enrollment was based on viewing. After sitting in line and knocking about in stuffy corridors, the child was asked to walk with or without music, read a rhyme and complete some other tasks of the examiners. If you were lucky, training awaited you and your child.

I met my mother on the playground. Her oldest daughter is a certified model. She told me: “When Sasha was 7 years old, my grandmother found an advertisement for recruiting models for a school somewhere. We paid 9 thousand for three months of training. Saturdays. After the end of the course we were invited to the exam. The children walked around the stage for about 40 minutes and everyone was given a diploma that now they can be models. No one else remembered the kids. And by the way, they promised subsequent employment!"

“But this is not about us!” I thought, looking at my daughter’s nose sticking out of the ruffles of her cap. “My beauty will certainly be hired and she will become the most in demand.

There are modeling agencies for children who conduct "virtual castings": they look at photos and communicate with parents who tell everything about the child, down to his habits and temperament. There are no classes or trainings in such agencies. They don't teach anything there. Photos are placed in a database and patiently await an application from the customer for a suitable type and age.

What to have with you

The desire and desire to make any sacrifices and waste for the sake of a bright future child. This is the first thing.

The second is for a child from 3 to 11 years old. Desirable of a Slavic appearance: blue-eyed blond. Among them, the most in demand are children 3-5 years old. Boys of the same age should look very masculine, a brutal type is welcome. Mama's sons with shoulder-length curls and dorks are not in vogue.

Third, portfolio - cool pictures of your child. A decent portfolio of Moscow photographers costs $ 200 - $ 250. This amount includes the services of a make-up artist and studio shooting. The result will be given to you on disk in electronic form, and the top 10 will be printed for you in A-4 format. However, if you think about it, then in a year and a half the child will change a lot and the pictures will have to be updated. Of course, you can cheat. It's no secret that at 4 years old, a baby can be angelic in appearance, and by 10 years old, turn into an ugly duckling. But this is your business, your concern: the surgeon's knife, hairdresser's hands and makeup, and your daughter is beyond competition.

Well, from 1,000 rubles to 1,000 dollars for a three-month course of study or a monthly fee for classes.

What to count on

At best, the child will be taught to move to music and dance. Defile, choreography, acting skills are included in the training courses of many schools. Perhaps it will be useful to someone. At worst, they will be given a diploma of graduation from the school of models. He will not play a role in life, but you can be proud until you retire. Few have a chance to continue their studies. And from them there will be a natural screening out of those parents whose wallets turned out to be too expensive, and those children whose dream of a beautiful life was only the dream of their parents.

psychologist (I quote this opinion for the sake of justice, and not at all from solidarity): Children with nervous breakdowns were often brought to me. Mothers told that they did everything for the child and even arranged models for the school. You start talking with the girl and you realize that the child has unjustifiably overestimated self-esteem. By purely external data, she is not a model: the ears are protruding, and the legs are clubfoot. The child is afraid of punishment and tries not to upset mom and dad. He is constantly under stress.

First of all, parents are to blame for all the troubles of a daughter or son. They send to model schools from 3, 5, 7 years. At this age, the child has no idea what a fashion model and a superstar are. The thought of a wonderful future and his chosenness is imposed on him, thereby depriving the child of the possibility of choice and self-determination. As with any serious occupation, be it sports, art, ballet, the training of professional models deprives children of their childhood. Instead of playing with dolls and cars, kids learn something completely uninteresting to them. From an early age they learn to live according to the laws of adults. Their main goal is to achieve success by any means.

There were cases when children severely beat each other, decorating their faces with bruises.

I am deeply convinced that the model future of children, first of all, is needed by parents in order to realize their dreams. Mothers torture their girls and drag them from school to agency, from agency to school. All to no avail. Some are infuriated by this, and they pour out their aggression on children. One mother so wished her daughter a glossy future that after a failure at the next casting she beat her five-year-old daughter to a pulp."

What to be afraid of

Empty promises to call as needed. Quite often, after the end of the modeling agency for children, model schools, mothers were given every imaginable and inconceivable promise, and as a result, they did not receive a single offer for several years. Course prices and monthly fees must not exceed $ 1,000. Be wary if you are required to provide a professional portfolio of a child made by local craftsmen.

Those who are lucky and they become models, what about them?

There are many examples and not a single comforting one. One little American woman was a huge success. Already at the age of 6, she was famous, and stories were shot about her. Mom very early gave her to the modeling business, where she was taught to do everything in an adult way. Everyone admired her weather-evolved femininity and sex appeal. One day the girl was found dead. When the rapist was caught and conducted a psychological examination, it turned out that the maniac was attracted by the sexuality of the little model.

There are also known examples in our country. The second beauty of Russia paid for her beauty with her eyesight - they splashed sulfur beauty in her face. They managed to save their lives, but the skin and vision were not.

And even if a child's career is very successful, and she conquers the world with her 90-60-90, how long is the model's age? Her working age is limited to 35 years. Models at this age are retiring. It's good if you managed to acquire useful connections or a husband in the interval between photo shoots and fashion shows. More often than not, this does not happen. A beautiful woman is not perceived as an intelligent conversationalist and business partner. As a result, at 35, she has to start her life anew. And from scratch: to get an education, a profession. The work of a model is not easy and requires constant physical stress, but the activity of the brain completely atrophies. Taking advantage of the tendency of men for beautiful asses, you can sell yourself, and at a more mature age you can engage in pimping. You can also read fairy tales in the children's program, and if you have at least some rumor, you can try to become a pop star. For the majority, however, the road is nowhere and the disappointments are worse than children's ones. Here you will not be able to relax with the help of a new Barbie or a trip to McDonald's. Instead of ice cream, drugs or alcohol can come to the rescue.