Name: Sharing My Modeling Stories | Tokyo Storytime
Uploaded: 2020-03-18T19:21:43.000Z
Duration: 10 min 15 s
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I did a story Time about my time in Paris is a model I love seeing how interested you were.

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A lot of you asked to see more of the story times, and that's why I'm creating this one for Tokyo.

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I started modeling when I was about 16 years old and I legitimately see stock modeling maybe three years ago or so.

I guess you guys didn't watch the Paris line.

Tokyo was literally the first place that just opened my eyes to something different to something that I never imagined is out in the world.

I would not have the chance to be in a place like Japan if it wasn't for modeling.

Tokyo was my second trip in my international modeling career.

While I can't believe you remember that and there were a really awesome agency that represented some really amazing strong girls in the industry.

I was so lucky that they contacted my mother agency in Israel and asked me to come get you.

Used to be just like the money making market for models, especially for Russian models.

There were a lot of Russian models, and I think it was mostly because of the cannon doll ish like features.

So it was an amazing market for someone like me was not very tall because they didn't really care about that much the way it used to be that you would sign a contract for about 30 days, 60 days.

They give you kind of a promise amount that you will come back home with.

I wasn't even thinking twice about the fact that ham 16 years old, going to a country don't really know what's going on, what I'm doing, where I'm going, who I'm gonna be with.

Let's also mention the fact that I went there for a month with $20 in my pocket because I didn't have money or I had money and spent it because it wasn't very smart with finance back then.

When you arrive in agency meets you there in Tokyo.

They just e mailed me the address I need to get to and that's it.

When I was on the plane, it didn't dawn on me that I don't have money to get to that place.

So I just remember that I was sitting beside this young guy.

He was telling me how his friends were coming to pick him up, and I was like, Listen, can you give me a ride?

By any chance, I have no idea where I'm going or what I'm doing, and I don't have enough money to get a taxi.

He's like, Sure, I didn't remember that detailed and it just hit me that that's what happened.

That's how I arrived from the airport to the model apartment that I had, like, so dangerous.

So nice they got me to where I needed to be.

It's kind of like the touristy area, so there's a lot of people from different parts of the world.

Ah, lot of the model's apartment on there.

It's kind of like a central area for that.

There's such a big contrast between the cultures, language, barrier and just like the customs of Japanese people and what I was used to, I didn't really know what to do.

I just kept bowing to everybody that got me by.

No, My first roommate was a Canadian girl.

Her name is Erika, and I actually think I still have her on Facebook when she lives in Canada.

Now I remember I felt a connection to her because at that point my mother already moved to Canada.

She like new, you know, the ins and outs of the industry.

Then fine part began when the agency was like, Oh, you have a job tomorrow So that was the day after I landed and I was so confused.

I was like, Well, I haven't really gotten to castings like you already booked me.

They're like, Yeah, I get to the job 16 year old lost, confused and I look young to you guys.

Now can you imagine the baby face I had when I was 16?

That was a really interesting experience.

They put a belly on me and I was just It was something arrived.

When I think about Tokyo, I just have all these flashes of memories, these kind of experiences that were so awesome, so funny, so different.

The fact that I looked young wasn't a negative like Iwas in other parts of the world.

Clothes, I remember, was pretty interesting again.

They're just kind of signal you with your hands.

The way it works in Tokyo worked before in Tokyo was that every day, unless you have a job where the client will pick you up and take you there.

You meet every morning at, like eight or 9 a.m. Downstairs there's a minivan with a driver and an agent, and there's old girls that are going to the casting.

So it's basically like a little model bus that has stops at casting some castings and part of others not, and the manager of the front.

He speaks English and Japanese, and he's kind of the middleman between you and the client.

So he tells you what to do and communicates with you.

It was very like structured situation, which I appreciated.

It wasn't kind of like Here's a map Go, which was in Paris there they obviously understood that a lot of us, first of all, don't speak the language, can read anything, so they kind of took more care of us, and it was a nice special because there were so many young girls.

We would stop it a casting he'll call like Okay, malaria, Lana, Erica and those are the girls that would go to the casting, and then we go back to the van and continue to the next destination, and that will go up until probably four or five PM Something six.

So it was long hours just sitting, walking in and out of castings.

It actually gave us time to connect and to create friendships and bond together.

I met some amazing gross to this experience and then basically would finish our castings, come home with shower, will eat and will go up to the club.

It was really going out every night because there was nothing really else to do.

There were all these clubs in the area that I wanted to get models in there, so they're giving you free dinners and free drinks than other local people.

Tourists will be more excited to go to that club.