Teenage Models Fashion Modeling Jobs

14-year-old Li Yuan, who won the Guangxi region section of the Miss Asia beauty contest earlier this month, has become a controversial star, with people concerned her effect as a role fashion model will fuel underage modeling.

"My daughter has been teenage modeling for two years. She has won 50 prizes at various levels of model contests, and was the overall winner in 12 of them," said her mother Fan Xuefang.

Neither the solo mother nor the teenage girl considers her age should be a concern in models jobs as long as she has the talent. Li Yuan said she would try her best to balance her modeling career and school studies, but would not say if she would go to senior high school next year.

The Miss Asia pageant, which is run by Asia Television Limited (a TV), has brought many famous fashion stars, including Kristy Yeung and Nina Li Chi, into the limelight; attracts teenage girls who dream of being stars. The three top finalists are signed by a TV.

"The age limit of the preliminary contest in Guangxi was lowered to 14 this year from 16 in previous years," said He Gang, organizer of the regional heat.

"A lower age limit was piloted in Guangxi this year. In other areas, the age limit is still 16. We required minors to show their parents' approval in writing to take part in the contest, " he said.

He said: "I feel young contenders -- those born after 1990 -- are very independent. They are willing to go on stage to demonstrate their talent and courage.".

But fashion industry experts disagree.

"Underage girls may be tall enough but their immature bodies trend fashion can't fully convey the charm of clothes. Our company doesn't recruit models younger than 16," said Li Xiaobai, chairman of Xin Silu (New Face) Model Company, which is the oldest and largest modeling agency in China.

One of the judges in the contest in Guangxi, Sha Xiaofan, a veteran models' agent, said school-age contenders often did not display "culture, knowledge and intelligence.

Carmen Electra And The Pussycat Dolls

Carmen Electra (birth name Tara Leigh Patrick) was born on April 20, 1972 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is an American model, television personality, actress and singer. Her family is of Irish, German, and Native American (Cherokee) descent. She attended Princeton High School for four years in Sharonville, a suburb of Cincinnati. She is not related to adult film actress Tera Patrick, who’s birth name is Linda Hopkins Shapiro.

She lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota and worked for Target Corporation , before moving to Los Angeles in 1991. After moving to California she met the singer Prince (a Minneapolis native), who persuaded her to change her name to Carmen Electra. Soon after, she signed a recording contract with Paisley Park Records, Prince’s company, marking the start of a short-lived singing career. In 1995, before moving to Los Angeles in 1991, started appearing in various television programs. Then in May of 1996 she appeared in Playboy magazine. This led to an increasing role as a television personality on various shows, including regular roles on Baywatch and MTV’s Singled Out.

She has appeared in several films, such as Good Burger (1997), The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999), the horror spoof Scary Movie (2000), and the remake of the 1970s TV show Starsky & Hutch (2004).

She also regularly performed with the exotic dance troupe The Pussycat Dolls. She also created the highly successful Carmen Electra Aerobic Striptease series of DVDs which combines classic stripping moves with a low impact workout.

Carmen Electra’s most recent movie appearance is as Eugene Levy’s trophy wife in Cheaper by the Dozen 2. Her acting work is regularly derided by critics; in the Roger Ebert review of the film Dirty Love, he states: “The Carmen Electra character, meanwhile, struts around like a ho in a bad music video, speaking black street talk as if she learned it phonetically, and pulling out a gun and holding it to a man’s head because she thinks, obviously, that pulling guns on guys is expected of any authentic black woman. A scene like that would be insulting in any other movie; here it possibly distracts her from doing something even more debasing.”

Commercial Plus Models Get Fashion Modeling Opportunities

The increasing fashion and beauty care awareness among people has led to explosion in demands of fashionable utility products, which in turn has stimulated the supply chains of such products. To reach out to each and every potential costumer the manufacturing companies are promoting their products through advertisement, which has necessitated the requirement of good-looking commercial models as the promoters of these products. As a career option fashion modeling offers everything a young man/woman can want glamour, celebrity status, money and popularity. In comparison to their male counterpart beautiful women are finding better career fashion modeling opportunities in modeling.

Course Details
It is a profession where educational qualifications become insignificant and physical attributes and personal qualities assume importance. The first and most important step to become a commercial models are to prepare a good portfolio. Thereafter they can approach advertising or model co-ordinating agencies or contest in beauty contests and beauty pageants to get a break in modeling. Nevertheless, there are training schools established by ex-models that impart several nuances of fashion modeling like portfolio preparation, ramp & cat walk, grooming & body language, hair & skin care, fitness & diet, positive mental attitude and basic acting.

Career Prospects
Fashion Modeling is, undoubtedly a glamorous field, which offers tremendous career opportunities to ambitious candidates. Moreover, once established it is a highly paid job. Ramp, photographic and electronic medium plus modeling are three main areas, where fashion models can work. Fashion Models can work for ad agencies, fashion houses and export firms. They also can work with reputed fashion designers on freelance basis. Fashion models also have option to work for fashion and women magazines. Attractive employment opportunities are also available to fashion model in garments, cosmetics and beauty care products companies. Successful plus fashion models can even try their luck in dazzling film and TV industry.