Answers About Modeling

People keep asking me how I got my kids into modeling and how they can do the same for their kids. So I'm going to give an answer here. I'd like to say its because they are pretty much the cutest kids in the world, but alas, it is not so. While they are pretty stinkin' adorable, the truth is, I got them into modeling by moving to Korea. Seriously, if you want your kids to model there's only 3 things they need...

1. They need a full head of hair
2. Girls preferably with curls, and
3. You need to live in Korea

The first month we were here we were aproached by a Korean woman in the food court at Yongsan. She asked if she could take pictures of Morgan because she was so cute. American kids get that a LOT from Koreans. So I let her. Then she handed me a business card and said she was a modeling agent and asked from my phone number. A few months later she called me and asked if Morgan could model. And thats how it all began.

Then, one day last week we ran into Morgan's agent in the parking lot at the PX. She came over to say hi and Jackson totally worked her over with his smiles and giggles. She was amazed at how happy and smiley he was, so she took his picture and called me a week later for his first shoot.

So in all reality, I didn't do anything to get my kids into modeling (except get knocked up, 9 months of pregnancy, and a total of about 20 hours of labor...oh, and moved to the other side of the world).

There are a TON of American children that model here. I've heard its because Korean's just think American children are cute. I've also heard that Korea is becoming more Westernized, so the clothing companies use American children to model so the product will sell better. Its very unlikely that our children would be able to model in the states, even though they are amazingly adorable :) In the states there is a lot more competition, so I think your children would have to be exceptionally beautiful to land a modeling job. I've also heard that you have to pay for modeling/acting classes and an agent to actually find them jobs. Here, we don't pay the agents, they pay us. They find the jobs first and then the kids to fill them.

So, I hope that answers everyone's questions. I honestly don't have any clue how to go about it in the States. Everything is very different in Korea. And they do pay us, because it is hard work (more so for the parents, the kids just play and eat candy all day). Morgan enjoys it, except for getting her hair and makeup done. But she's getting used to it. She likes taking clothes off and putting new ones on and she likes playing with other kids, drawing, eating candy, playing with puppies, and everything else she gets to do.