Grandniece Jasmyne the model.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Jasmyne, my grandniece, was discovered by a scout for the Hefner Agency in Seatlle (Don't know if there is a relation to Hugh) at a One Direction concert. They have offered her a modeling contract. This whole scenario is twisting up my head in all sorts of ways.

One of the comments made was they wished that Uncle Greg was closer so he could do her portfolio shots. My first thought was happy they thought I could do a good job for them in the picture taking category. My second was ewww, I don't want to take pictures of my just turned 15 year old relative that make her look attractive. My job is to protect her from the attentions of leches, right?

Today, I was forwarded the pictures from her test shoot which led to more confusion. My first was the photographer did a horrible job in presenting her. In a lot of shots her hair is a mess and she was wearing a lot of the wrong clothes. Then I got to the shots of her in the bikini. Once again all sorts of wrong. Where is her Burka? But the other shot I'm having is she needs to lose some weight to make this work. Who wants to tell a fifteen year old girl she is fat? Haven't we heard all sorts of stories about screwing up a young girl by ruining her self image?

If she wants to be a model and has fun and makes some coin, that's great. I just don't like it. Or I do. But I don't.

[cranefly]

I, uh, have a niece. Ummm, yeah. A niece.
My mom is a bit scandalized by her.
But to be honest, she's more stable than most of the people in our extended family.

Maybe you could do a shoot for her....

http://mstequilamockingbird.com/

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

oh, dear.

That didn't help.

[Drunk Monk]

I don't have any nieces.

I have a cousin who used to be a girl name Jean and now is a boy named Jacob. That pissed me off. Gene is a boy's name. And Jacob has bigger guns than me now.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

You have a daughter.

And doesn't everyone have bigger guns than you?

[Drunk Monk]

...at least for now. She'll catch up to me soon probably.

[El Dingo]

My sister was a cheerleader and model-to-be. She made me distrust attractive people as shallow and self-centered. So far that distrust has not been invalidated.

Let me clarify; our environmental variables guide our perception and behavior. If you think your appearance enhances your peer evaluation, you enhance that appearance. The cost of enhancing that appearance may mean sacrificing environmental variables that do not contribute to that peer appreciation. This means some (not all) modelling types will spend cognitive cycles on pairing external instant gratification (shoes + outfit) versus internal prolonged gratification (research + anecdotal evidence + collation + results) that could be used to validate belief systems.

Basically blondes are dumb.