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OCTOBER 2006

Insulting Models
A model questions us attacking everything, including our target market.

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Hell Monique,
Why do you and this web site insist on insulting models? You often attack them and everyone else who is legitimate in the modeling industry. I hope that you get off on bad mouthing everyone, because we do not and your bullshit is no longer cute and is getting old. If you insult those who you are trying to sell on modeling, you only hurt you. Who want to listen to people who talk down to them? I work as a waitress at one of those chicken wing restaurants that you always bitch about, and make great money doing that and by modeling. I have a lot of modeling experience in the industry and have worked with the best photographers in Florida.
I would just like to say fuck you, you sorry ass bitch!
- Krissi, a model (and chicken wing waitress) from Tampa Bay

You have experience and have worked with the best? No you haven’t.
You would like to believe that you have worked with the best photographers in Florida. You have not. You have been conned into thinking that you have by photographers who are little more than salesmen who lie and embellish what they have done. Why aren’t they listed on this site? Why aren’t these photographers listed in the Independent Modeling TALON directory? Why are these photographers passed over by real professional models who know what in the hell they are actually doing? You believe that you have a lot of experience as a model. Well, entering bikini jam contests with a surgically enhanced body is not modeling. If it were, you would be right. As it is not, you are wrong, and are very misguided as to what a model is and what we do (which brings us back to the counterfeit photographers who gave you lots of bad advice).
So, for those readers who are wondering, what exactly is a “chicken wing waitress”? A chicken wing waitress is often portrayed as some sort of blue collar sex object, and they work in skimpy shorts and shirts for their starring “role”. In my opinion, you girls all compromise by allowing yourself to be degraded and exploited, and those restaurants are tacky places which are not often patronized for their good food. Why do you think men go there to eat? How does it make you feel?
Did you know that I have been offered a job top be featured in a well-known (the best known) chicken wing restaurant chain calendar? I’m not surgically mutilated (ahem- enhanced), either. I’m all natural, and it helps me to pull off a wide variety of marketable looks in modeling because I am not locked into the bimbo look (I guess they wanted the all-American wholesome girl look instead of the plastic silicone fake look). Oh, and by the way, I turned them down. I care too much about my self-respect and my modeling career to accept every job that comes along. Even if it pays (a LOT), what good is it if it can hurt my career with my face associated with a business which is not exactly know for class?
Chicken wing waitresses are NOT models! It is both funny and sad that many girls become chicken wing waitresses because they want to become a model or an entertainer. They figure that if they are “out there” they will be discovered. That is not how you become a model, and it does not lead into modeling. Many chicken wing waitresses become well known, all right, but for the wrong reasons. I have more respect for exotic dancers (for the uneducated, you refer to them as “strippers”) than I do for chicken wing waitresses. Although both professions are known for being fake with people and leading them on for the money, using similar tactics, at least exotic dancers are honest about what they actually are and what they do. Exotic dancers are often smarter, too, as they are not as easily misled and conned like you have been.
I drove by a chicken wing restaurant the other day on my way to a booking, and noticed that it was next to a cheap, tacky motel. How convenient. How many of those waitresses knew that motel like the back of their hand? How many waitresses tracked back bed bugs and other nice goodies back to their homes and jealous, possessive boyfriends and husbands? Chicken wing waitresses with bed bug infestations in their homes? I wonder what (or who/m) they have been doing! The thought was good for a chuckle, well, at their expense. You are what you do, and I call things as they actually are. Hmmmmm...... Which profession leads into being an escort on the side or as a main career? Exotic dancers or chicken wing waitresses? I really don’t have the answer to that one, but I’ll leave it to you to figure it our for yourself.
So, do you think that I am fond of chicken wing waitresses? You don’t want me to go into my opinion about so-called “professional” sports team cheerleaders (nice paycheck, girls!) and bikini bar dancers (you’re clothed so you are not an exotic dancer? Then why do you dance and act the same way?). They are not models, either, although they often claim to be. A lot of cheerleaders, if you notice, don’t have any business trying to model, either, simply because they don’t have the looks that they need! Have you seen any cheerleader calendars lately? Not exactly pleasant, are they? To be fair, though, some cheerleaders are model-worthy, but they are definitely in the minority on any squad. Would I ever consider being an sports team cheerleader? I could do it, and they would benefit from my modeling, but why would I? I get PAID for my hard work, and I am not buying the “you can get exposure” argument. I get more exposure as a model, and I also make a living from my career, thank you so very much.
Hee hee. Think about the thousands of young, professional women who I have “insulted” by now (you can hold the hate mail because you know that I am right). Actually, if they are real professionals, they wouldn’t be insulted. If they are secure in what they do and know who they are, they also wouldn’t get defensive, either. Do I think that I am better than they are? No. I am smarter, though, because I refuse to compromise my integrity for money or the promise of fame, and I also realize that I DON’T know everything and my career benefits by educating myself. Many of these people refuse to be educated, and they are what they are through ignorance and insecurity.
~ Model Monica Stevens,
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