Growing up in a small town in Louisiana, Rachel Scott always knew that she belonged in New York City. Although modeling wasn’t her goal at first, her mother often suggested that she maybe consider it. “I look exactly like my mom,” she says. “We’re like twins.”
At the age of 16, while riding home from school she heard a radio announcement about a Pro Scout model call. Although she previously had doubts about joining the modeling industry, she jumped at this opportunity. “The open call was at the local Holiday Inn. I made it through the first round. At the second round I met the booker for Elite Model Management and he signed me that day.”
While finishing high school, Rachel made frequent trips back and forth from Louisiana to New York. “It was tough. I missed a lot of school. I missed my first day of Senior Year because I was shooting in New York.” Soon after, Rachel moved to Harlem and lived with roommates. “I stayed in the model apartments a few times,” she said. “But I wanted to be independent.”
She and a fellow Elite model spent 2 months in Hong Kong, walking in Market Week shows for designers such as Calvin Klein, Valentino, and Versace. She also booked a campaign for the Hong Kong version of Forever 21. “Being in Hong Kong was a culture shock,” she recalls. “The language barrier was really difficult. One client got really mad and screamed at me because I couldn’t understand what he wanted me to do. In Asia they want you to copy exactly what you see in the inspiration picture. You can’t add your own interpretation.”Rachel also walked in a few shows for the Spring/ Summer 2010 New York Fashion week, one being Rebecca Minkoff. She describes the fashion week experience in one word: Crazy.
It’s been 4 years since Rachel first started her career with Elite. She’s currently signed with Race and in the next 5 years Rachel says she would like to go to college and major in English or Creative writing. “Id also like to have a serious relationship,” she said. “I’ve never really had one because of my career. In 5 years I’d like to try being a normal person [laughs]. But definitely still live in New York City.”
We all know modeling can be quite a profitable business, but the problem here is how can we study the spending habits of the models? What would you think models spend it on? Shoes? Hand Bags? Traveling? Well most models do, but then there are other ones that take another direction with their careers and their financial planning, like our good friend Courtney Erickson with Q Models, she is an inspiration to us and other models.
She has been modeling for quite sometime now, mostly booking editorials, hair campaigns, book covers and other print work, which we all know its quite profitable when you are actually booking this jobs like this girl does.
Well after some years of hard work, and being wise with her spending, keeping herself from too much partying and avoiding been in the negative side of the industry, Courtney is now achieving her dream, to buy her own HOUSE back home in Louisiana, this girl at the age of 20 is financially stable to buy her own house, this is something we all should aim for. We congratulate you Courtney for your hard work, and being a great example to all of us.
We should also ask Jeff down at Q Models if he is teaching his models to be more responsible than other agency models. Jeff we salute you for a great job!
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