This made me sad.
It’s a post by Isobel Wren (isobelwren) in a ModelMayhem forum in a thread called “embarassed about being a glamour model?” (June 23, 2007) When I tell people I model they tend to give me a once over and say, "YOU model?" or become scarily familiar with me, asking too many questions or assuming that I'm an easy lay b/c I'm a model (that's not why I'm an easy lay). All my relatives think I'm a MUA (even though I'm effin HOPELESS with makeup [which BTW isn’t true, if I am correctly informed that she did her own makeup for this picture] ) b/c my parents are too embarrassed to tell them and that seems to work so I've started telling people I'm a MUA or that I write porno scripts.
I'm not embarrassed by what I do, I love what I do. I'm embarrassed by people's reactions to what I do. I feel bad lying to them (I hate lying) but until society is more accepting of glamour models I'm going to lie b/c I don't feel like having to explain myself to someone when it's nonna their damn business.
I can understand why she lies, but it makes me sad. It sounds like living in hiding.