We recently ventured out to model training camp for three glorious days to accompany 12, newly signed stunning models.
After completing a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy, Shelagh Kathleen Genuis pursued numerous activities including volunteering in the community, research and writing in the medical literature, and being a hands-on mother to her vocal and energetic children.
As exploitative as it can be for a group of adult professionals to purposefully photograph an adolescent as though she were a sex symbol, and to edit and disseminate those images globally, it is potentially just as exploitative — and as materially and personally damaging to someone who makes her living off her image — to take photographs that were taken for an editorial context and license them for commercial use.
When I discussed the situation with the teen and her mother, I was told that, in an attempt to be responsible, they had together visited a birth control centre and, in order to prevent an unintended pregnancy, the daughter had started taking the birth control pill.
Using images that teenagers and young adults can relate to, a variety of myths and different lifestyle options are explored.
Clauson had already been modeling for two years when she took part in the shoot; 13 is in fact a typical age to start modeling.