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Modeling Career · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American Mama's. Dear mama's, is
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  Speaker 1: modeling still a sustainable career today? Well, let's ask our
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  Speaker 1: American mama's Mama Mama and joining us now we're American
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  Speaker 1: Mama's turning Ediviale and Kimberly Burlason. This is a very
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  Speaker 1: interesting question because we currently have the First Lady of
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America who was a legitimate supermodel
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  Speaker 1: back in the day. That was the career that got
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  Speaker 1: her to the United States, that actually introduced her to
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. That that was the career that led to
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  Speaker 1: her becoming First Lady of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: And with AI, with social media influencers, is modeling still
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  Speaker 1: a thing?
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  Speaker 2: This is an interesting thing I watched. I watched a
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  Speaker 2: panel as a panel of three Instagram models and three
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  Speaker 2: runway models. The Instagram models were all kind of plus size,
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  Speaker 2: they were body positivity. They had large followings. One had
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  Speaker 2: almost a million, half fifty thousand, just that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: The runway models were like the most beautiful creatures I've
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  Speaker 2: ever seen, beautiful, not very little followings, but questions were
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  Speaker 2: asked of them. And one thing that's interesting is that
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  Speaker 2: it was asked, do you have cosmetic surgery? All of
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  Speaker 2: the people that were Instagram models had had cosmetic surgery,
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  Speaker 2: none of the runway models. Question is, do you use filters?
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  Speaker 2: All Instagram models, yes, we use filters. Runway models no filters.
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  Speaker 2: So they came together and they're all talking about this,
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  Speaker 2: and the runway model said, we are broke. We have
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  Speaker 2: no money. The Instagram models have money. We're getting free
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  Speaker 2: stuff sent to them, they're getting pr packages, but they're
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  Speaker 2: able to make a living by what they're doing. And
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  Speaker 2: the runway model said, not only do we not have
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  Speaker 2: any money, we came even to afford the clothes that
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  Speaker 2: we actually are modeling. But people are now wanting Instagram
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  Speaker 2: models to showcase their stuff because of the following.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: So they're finding that it's a dying thing. Nobody is
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  Speaker 2: car People aren't buying magazines anymore, no, you know, So
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  Speaker 2: it's like.
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  Speaker 1: It was the last time you bought a magazine.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know.
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  Speaker 4: I quit my subscription to People magazine years ago. And
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  Speaker 4: they ask you every now and then they'll say, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you're seventy five percent off that magazine is like now,
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  Speaker 4: it's nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I think last time I bought a magazine was the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, if I go on an air if i'm if
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  Speaker 4: I'm in the airport and I want to read something.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it's just interesting how it's all changed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very much. So so so it's Instagram, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: social media influencers.
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  Speaker 3: Change.
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  Speaker 2: It's changed everything for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So that brings up the next question. Is that
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  Speaker 1: a good thing or is that a bad thing? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there was this whole thing with the supermodels were too skinny,
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  Speaker 1: that they were inducing other people to come anarexic. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you've now got this more egalitarian playing ground where anybody
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  Speaker 1: can be famous. In the Indy Warhol everybody's famous for
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. But as you mentioned, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: this body positivity stuff. There's filters, there's fake it's it's
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  Speaker 1: even less real than the supermodels were.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the question, the question was asked to all six
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  Speaker 2: of these people, have you experienced a negative feeling about
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  Speaker 2: yourself because of your role that you're playing right now?
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  Speaker 2: In all six of them, whether they're Instagram or Runway,
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  Speaker 2: said yes. So I think there's just a problem in
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  Speaker 2: our society with image and how we feel about ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: So if your career, especially if your career though, is
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  Speaker 1: based on how you look, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, and it's in both places.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, either runway model or Instagram model, social media influencer.
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  Speaker 1: If your career, if your livelihood is based on how
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  Speaker 1: you look, of course you're going to be self conscious
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  Speaker 1: about that because that's how you feed yourself exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Well, if we go back to that, the body positivity
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  Speaker 4: that they were touting, Meghan Trainer and Lizzie and all
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  Speaker 4: of these people, it's so interesting because during the woke years,
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  Speaker 4: it was like, you know, even on the cover of
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  Speaker 4: that men's magazine, the Sports Illustrated, you know, they had
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  Speaker 4: the heavy girls, or they had the transgender or that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, everything was so woke and they were taking
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  Speaker 4: you know, Lizzie really came down, you know, that brought
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  Speaker 4: that hammer down on people about just love your big,
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  Speaker 4: voluptuous body, and she'd be eating in front.
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  Speaker 3: Well then all, well that was gonna be my point.
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  Speaker 4: And all of the sudden ozempic comes into the picture
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  Speaker 4: and Meghan Trainor whose first song was I'm not a
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  Speaker 4: stick thin Barbie, I'm you know, it's all about the
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  Speaker 4: bass and all of them, they let go of their
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  Speaker 4: morals and their values about body positivity. They are now thinner, healthier, well,
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  Speaker 4: Lizzie looks healthier, Megan looks like she's really really good
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  Speaker 4: about all these people that were, you know, shouting love.
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  Speaker 4: Your curves are now teeny tiny because they found this
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  Speaker 4: miracle drug. And so you recognize that a lot of
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  Speaker 4: times these people are saying this stuff for themselves in
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  Speaker 4: that moment.
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  Speaker 3: They don't mean it. They wanted to be thinner.
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  Speaker 4: Even during that time they were saying that, and Lizzo
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  Speaker 4: looks amazing, it's beautiful. But it's like you, I want
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  Speaker 4: them to come clean about it so badly. I want
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  Speaker 4: them to say, look, I know what I said, but
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  Speaker 4: the truth is it is better to be healthy. I
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  Speaker 4: feel better, I look better and I have more energy.
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  Speaker 4: But they can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe she's not going to be a supermodel, but
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  Speaker 1: certainly she can be an influencer.
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  Speaker 3: On exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I do find this and again with AI coming in,
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  Speaker 1: even the influencers, I mean, unless you're really funny, your
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  Speaker 1: day's maybe number two. If you like to ask our
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