Preteen - Hot Preteen Models

Preteen years are very exciting - you are somewhere in between childhood and adolescence and makes you wonder what you will be when you become an adult. Many preteens think of becoming a model. They think it is a hot and great-paying job. But here are some realities about preteen modeling or modeling in general.

1. If you become a preteen model, there is no guarantee you will forever be a model. 

2. It's not all about being a hot preteen. You have to have camera presence. Many beautiful people never succeed in modeling because they show no depth or emotion in photos.

3. You have to be skilled at posing and must understand body your own language.

4. There's a good chance you will trail behind in school matters.

5. You must have an alternative choice of career in case modeling doesn't work out for you.

6. It's not all about the glamour. You have to be tough, physically and emotionally. When you don't do a great job, people will yell at you but you shouldn't take it personally.

7. There will be lots of people who might take advantage of you so you must be careful and stick to the people who love you.

8. You must learn how to connect and build friendships with people. Modeling is about "knowing someone who knows someone" and networking.

9.You have to have confidence. People will be criticizing you a lot - you just have to do your thing and don't mind other people.

10. You have to be diligent and dedicated. Most of the time, call time for models are very early, so you have to get up early and always be polite no matter how tired you are.

Being a preteen in the world of modeling can be very exciting. It can serve as a playground - a place for you to explore as well as develop your skills but without a family behind you or values and beliefs that you stand for, you can get lost in it and never be the same person again. So if you decide to take on preteen modeling or have a modeling career when you become an adult, always remember that only the toughest remain standing.

Parenting A Teen Model - How to Help Her Develop Positive Body Image

There could be millions of things that make parenting a teen model  can be difficult, one of them could be the problem of poor body image of their child. Children or teenagers these days are exposed to all sorts of media. With the internet and cable TV, the influences that young people have these days - bulimic actresses and anorexic models - may affect the way he or she perceives herself and her body. Especially for a teen model who is exposed to a weight-obsessed industry.

So what can a parent do to promote positive body image on their teen model?

1. Set an example. Parents will always be the role models of their children, no matter what. So practice a positive outlook on your body, too, start by not being so obsessed with your waistline!

2. When you see your teen model gazing at her reflection for too long, as if inwardly contemplating her imperfections, stop her. Limit mirror-time in your home.

3. Always speak out the positive things you see about other people, yourself and your child. Instead of commenting on how big your neighbor's butt is, comment on the good things about his/her appearance instead, like "she has beautiful, full lips" or "I like the way Jane wears her hair."

4. Watch TV with him/ her. It will give you an idea of his/ her influences. That way, you will have an idea where his insecurities may come from.

5. Discuss how the media sometimes make a bigger deal of things even though they are not. Tell her about the things that media do that make the bodies in magazines unrealistic. Better yet, show him/ her un-photoshopped pictures of Britney Spears (You can find hundreds of them on the internet). That will get your point across. 

Parenting a teen model can be very challenging. You have to have patience as well communicate well to your child so that he or she may have a more positive body image.

Teen Models, Adolescence and Plastic Surgery

Adolescence is a time where a person is mostly very idealistic – sometimes to the point of being unrealistic - about himself/herself. And in a world where stick-thin teen models dressed like goddesses are being worshipped by the general adolescent population, the average teenager could hardly be blamed for wanting to change some part of his/her self by getting a plastic surgery.

According to Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development, adolescence is a combination or synthesis of a person’s childhood and an introduction to or anticipation of the role he must play in adulthood. It often results to a role confusion or identity crisis, which then pushes teens to look for their identities in other people.

This makes average teens very easily influenced by movies, TV shows and glossy magazines. Coming up with unrealistic and ridiculous ideas of what they should be or what they should look like only magnifies when they see people their age in these shows and magazines.

Ignoring the fact that these picture-perfect teen models and actresses had to go through hours of
professional make-up before being photographed (not to mention the number of hours of professional photo editing), the average teenage girl who is in the middle of an identity crisis would think that looking exactly like these teen models can make her as someone who fits with society’s standards. But when she looks at herself and realizes that a part of her face or body doesn’t fit with the standards, she often looks for solutions, things to make herself fit in. And what better and permanent quick fix than to get a plastic surgery?

About 244,000 cosmetic surgeries were done on teens from 2000 to 2006 (according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons). The most popular procedures are the rhinoplasty (nose lift) and mammaplasty (breast augmentation).

Most of these surgeries were done on graduation season – which makes us think that today’s graduation gifts are not anymore confined to getting a first car or a plane ticket to Paris.

Teens are often unaware of how dangerous these surgeries can be. Hundreds and hundreds of lives have been lost to cosmetic surgeries caused by medical malpractices and even suicide (due to being psychologically unprepared of the sudden changes in their body).

Needless to say, teens (and parents) who are willing to spend thousands on plastic surgeries are often those who feel insecure about themselves and their children. But then again, when you’re living in a superficial society and surrounded with billboards of impossibly beautiful actresses and teen models ... who wouldn’t feel insecure in one way or another?

So who’s to blame about the obviously damaging and potentially lethal level of insecurity that teens feel nowadays? Is it the media? The society? The home these teens grew up in?... To that, we know no definite answer.