I have spent over two decades inside the modeling industry. I have watched sixteen-year-olds sign contracts they cannot read, let alone understand. I have seen agencies advance money against earnings that never materialize, leaving teenagers thousands of dollars in debt before their first real paycheck. I have stood in casting rooms where adults casually commented …

I have spent over two decades inside the modeling industry, and I am done pretending the cracks are anything other than a canyon. The business of selling beauty has always had an ugly underbelly, and the people who bear the brunt of it are the youngest, most vulnerable workers in the chain: the models themselves. …