This was written by a good friend of mine, Nicole Seligman. She is only 16 years old and has a great future ahead of her! I wish to support her in her quest to become a known model and actress, and I start here.
This is Nicole:
Forgive me if the link is eventually broken, but believe me, she is a wonderful and VERY LOVELY girl.
and THIS is what she wrote:
"I didn't simply come out of the closet. I gracefully slipped on a pair of four-inch rainbow pumps and kicked the door down." I am the unexpected. I'm a humbly confident girl living in a small town in Texas. I'm a big dreamer, but, unlike most, I'm also a big achiever. I know what it means to want something and the effort it takes to accomplish. I am very involved at school. I'm bright in the classroom and out, using my intelligence to change the world. I take part in theater, I'm the Secretary for our Thespian Society board, and I'm on the Varsity Forensics Team. I'm a performer. In order to be successful in portraying another character, one must know about herself and her surroundings. I'm a very passionate person, and a very expressive person. I love writing, fashion and music.
I believe that I would be a strong candidate in Seventeen's Reader Model Contest because if I'm going to change the world, why not start there. I feel that a photograph really does say a thousand words, and I have at least that many to convey. I understand fashion in a different way than most teenage girls in our society. Fashion is more than color or fabric or what's inside the magazine. Someone had to rack their brain to design them, just like any other product. Fashion is about pyschology. I think Seventeen does a fabulous job of selling the fashions to girls of all different pyschological levels, and I would be honored to model those emotions in the pages of the magazine. I have a look that is like no other. My mind and drive are incomparable to any other applicant. Expect the unexpected.