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Chapter 25: The Fashion Show

The limo pulls up to a place called Spartan Studios, a place I’ve never heard of, even Brad didn’t tell me what the studio was called. We pulled to the back of the studio where all the models get dropped off at. We aren’t allowed to go in the front doors because of all the spectators, the news reporters, and the public. They aren’t allowed to take pictures of us. John and I got out of the limo and went straight into the studio. He went where all the CEO’s offices are and I went into the dressing room.

My coach and Brad were in there waiting on me, they came running up to me and said, “Geez, where have you been? You’re late.” “I’m only five minutes late!” I said nervously. “You must be here early so that we can get you ready!” Brad said. I shook my head back and forth and followed Brad to my own dressing

room.

There are tons of people backstage, I’m shocked to see all of these people. There are people taking pictures of us, people doing fittings, some may need to be altered, there are news reporters, just so many people to mention. I’m not even sure what the designers are going to put on me yet! This is nerve- racking. It’s so wild here with everyone running around trying to get all of the models ready to go out on stage. There are about 10 models here competing for NY’s next top model and I’ve heard from many people that the John Langdon Modeling Agency models usually win, out of the other ten modeling agencies.

“This two–to–three–hour prep time before the show is really wearing me down,” I thought to myself. I’m not going to let

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anyone see how stressed I am about this, this is not going to get me down, I’m going to pull myself up and do the best that I

can.

I can’t believe I just got called to get my hair and makeup done! F**k, I’m raging with nerves. Brad walks over to me and puts his hands on my shoulders and looks me into my eyes and says, “got get ‘em, girl, you can do this!” I became speechless and walked over to get my makeup done first, then onto my hair.

Once I finished with that, the first team of designers grabbed my arm and led me to their dressing room, “I still don’t know what I’m going to wear.”

While I’m sitting in the dressing room, anxiously, my design team brought out a lacy, very tight, with a bit of sequence on it with a slit down the leg for me to model. This dress is of elegance, something you would wear to a fancy restaurant for dinner. I fell in love with this dress. As I’m putting this dress on, I feel the rush going through my body, I know I’m going to kill this first set of modeling.

“I just know it!”

I’m the third model to be announced, so I’m going to be calm, I can’t mess this up, this is big–time modeling and I won’t ruin this for John, I just can’t!

When the first model is called out to the stage, I’m standing in the dressing room and John appears. He looks at me and says, “damn, babe, you look great in that dress! You are definitely going to kill the first round!” After he had told me that, I felt relieved, I know he khows this business like the back of his hand and he won’t bullshit me.

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John sat with me until it was my turn to go out onto the stage. The second model is on stage now, so I have about a few minutes left until it’s my turn. Once the second model came back to the dressing room, I knew I was getting called to go out next and John felt my palms sweating, he wiped them with a towel and said, “stay relaxed, just go out there and do your thing. I know you can do this!” All did was look at him and shook my head up and down and I quickly walked to the stage.

“OMG, it’s time for me to show what I have. I can’t believe I’m in this position right now, I’m in shock, so nervous right now. I stood in the doorway, jittery until they called my name.

Moments later, I heard, “And for our next model we have Star Thomas from Nebraska. She will be modeling an elegant dinner attire.”

I started to walk out on stage and I almost tripped with this high -heel on, but I caught myself. Then I started walking out further and started to strut my stuff. I knew I couldn’t make a facial expression when I walked out and saw the whole studio filled with people and everyone was snapping pictures, so I continued to strut down the center aisle, I gave them a sexy look, showed my lips off, and flipped my dress a bit over my leg and then walked to the end of the stage. I saw Leila sitting in the audience, I looked at her and thankfully she gave me a wink. I knew at that moment I was doing good. I turned around and strutted back to the front of the stage. I turned around again. and stood there for a moment with my leg posing as the commentators were finishing up with their announcements.

When they finished announcing me, I walked back to the doorway and then ran back to the dressing room. I swear sweat was running from my body. I had to freshen up before the next

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set. Brad neared me and said, “You did a great job, you had everyone in awe about your beauty.”

I had to sit for a moment, then my design team brought me my second round of clothes to model. I have this round and one more to go then it will be over.