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...Japan. When sheis not jetting about posing for the cameras, however, the East Asian Studies and Economics concentrator hangs out with her blockmates in Eliot or stresses about her next thesis chapter. And, like so many other Harvard students, Chinwe has struck a balance between class and activities. Instead of rowing crew or clocking hours at the IOP, she juggles the daily grind of schoolwork with the glitz and glamour of modeling...
...shoots and often-ridiculous feats required of models. Some modeling conditions still stunned her. A few weeks ago, Emmy appeared in a bridal event, but was mistakenly cast as the mother-of-the-bride. iI got there, and there had been some screw-up with my age and sizes. Instead of having a bridal gown there that would fit me, they had a purple mother-of-the-bride plus-size suit. The director still insisted that I wear it!i she recalls. iThey stuck a million pins all over it, stuffed the top, and put me in six-inch heels...
...just go into it for fun. I understand and respect that it is different for a lot of the other girls.i For a lot of the girls involved in modeling, the lifestyle can be dangerous. Chinwe has the unique position of being asked by her managers to gain weight, instead of starving herself. But bulimia and anorexia are common in the industry, as are drugs. iYou see it,i Chinwe says. iYouill be sitting next to someone who will excuse themselves for the bathroom and then come back with lots of energy.i Young girls on their own, away from their...
...While one might consider such a locking of horns to be standard fare when bringing together a number of alpha-females and -males into the same extremely cramped workspace, such an analysis would be ill-considered, to say the least. We here at the magazine instead consider such behavior to be the successor to existential crisis in the postmodern milieu. Clearly, we find ourselves trying to wrap our minds around a difficult, nay, hot-buttony issue...
...find an answer to this thorny question? Let us follow the courageous example of, say, Godel or Heisenberg, and say, resoundingly, no. This is not a proposition fm can decide, at least not right now. Perhaps later there will be time. For the moment, we leave it to you instead. This weekend, as you chillax, do with us what you will. Decide if we shoot from the hip, or from slightly lower. And read accordingly...