00:10Funny thing about the topic of beauty is that it's an obsession for everyone.
00:14Beautiful people perceive a higher quality of life as opposed to people that decide to be as average.
00:20Beauty is a multi-billion dollar industry and models in our society are the benchmark.
00:24The modeling industry sells a lifestyle. It looks very glamorous and easy.
00:28It's hard to find a model.
00:30In L.A., as a model, you can make hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:34I was labeled the first male supermodel.
00:37I was the first black woman on the cover of Mademoiselle and I was only 13.
00:41What job as a 13-year-old do you make tens of thousands of dollars and you don't have to do anything but pose?
00:47If I were to do the shirtless model thing in front of Abercrombie, it's definitely an opportunity to become discovered.
00:51Everyone perceives my world to be so glamorous and a wonderland. It's not exactly that.
00:56There was always this other part of the modeling that kind of reared its ugly head and got uglier and uglier.
01:01I had my own escort service for a little bit.
01:04I saw crazy stuff. I was living this double life. I'm Johnny Supermodel rocketing around the world and I'm in a cult and my whole life is being controlled.
01:13This industry is for a masochist.
01:16Because I was so underly thin, I really didn't get my period until I was 21.
01:20If they don't like your look in this industry, then you're kind of screwed.
01:24The business is not forgiving. It doesn't care. You know, it has no feelings.
01:28This is permanent striving for perfection.
01:31The most common surgery is breast augmentation.
01:34Here's the deal with plastic surgery. If you look like you've had it, it is over.
01:42I just want her to follow her dreams.
01:45Here you are being employed because of how you look.
