AfterEllen has an
interesting interview up with fashion model Jessica Clark. Here are some fun snippets, though I find the articulate insight into the modeling world interesting in itself. My comments in brackets.
AE: So, that vacuous, hollow expression you see on runway models' faces is actually because they're seconds away from passing out?
JC: Oh my God, totally. I'll tell you what it is, no joke. People say, "Oh, you people are so bitchy and vacant" and whatever. And I'm like: "They're
hungry. They're hungry and tired and they don't know what you're talking about because they can't think straight because they haven't eaten for a month."
[I can't imagine . . . not eating. And substituting cigarettes, Diet Coke, and cocaine. *luffs on food*]
AE: Runway is the most stringent?
JC: Runway is the most stringent. If you're in the more "commercial" arena, which is still the fashion things, but also things like Pantene and L'Oreal, you can be a [size] two to a small four, which is what I am now.
[*whistles* I know some size zeros . . . but none of them are 5'11".]
AE: You've said that people don't always believe you're gay.
JC: Try "never." Even my girlfriends don't believe I'm gay until we go to bed. I'm sure I'd do much better in L.A., because there are a lot more skinny femmes out there, but —
[ROFL.]
AE: That's reverse discrimination [being told she's "in the wrong place" when she visits a girl bar].
JC: My straight friends think it's hilarious — how little I appeal to lesbians. They say it's God's way of addressing the balance. Because if I were straight, I could pretty much date any guy I want because I'm a model and that's what they're into. But because I like women, I have to work, work to get a date. It keeps me humble.
[ROFL again.]
AE: How do you make it work, when you know you look like a total jackass in that designer's clothes?
JC: Close your eyes and think of the money.
[Eyes on the prize.]
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