{"id":16816,"date":"2013-09-05T08:43:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T08:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=16816"},"modified":"2014-06-13T13:14:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T13:14:59","slug":"models-direct-curvy-model-triumph-as-upton-wins-model-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/models-direct-curvy-model-triumph-as-upton-wins-model-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Models Direct: Curvy Model Triumph As Upton Wins &#8216;Model Of The Year&#8217; Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16817\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/models-direct-curvy-model-triumph-as-upton-wins-model-of-the-year-award\/article-2411908-1ba0c084000005dc-433_306x921\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16817\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16817\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.talentmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-uploads\/2013\/09\/article-2411908-1BA0C084000005DC-433_306x921.jpg\" alt=\"Models Direct\" width=\"306\" height=\"921\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Upton at last night&#8217;s Style awards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Models Direct writers saw Kate Upton walk away with the <em>Model Of The Year<\/em> award at the <em>Annual Style Awards<\/em> last night. This unexpected achievement from Upton proves once and for all that you do not have to be a perfectly proportioned, size zero to establish yourself as one of the world\u2019s modelling elite!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Victoria\u2019s Secret bosses must be feeling a little embarrassed after their stylist Sophie Neophitou recently described 21-year-old Upton as \u201ctoo obvious\u201d and declared that she could never appear on a VS catwalk event: &#8220;We would never use [Upton],&#8221; She said, &#8220;She&#8217;s like a Page 3 girl. She&#8217;s like a footballer&#8217;s wife, with the &#8216;too-blonde&#8217; hair and that kind of face that anyone with enough money can go out and buy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now it seems that she will have to eat her words. Not only has curvy Upton won this, much coveted, award &#8211; she also appears (styled as Marylin Monroe) on the 100th anniversary edition of Vanity Fair this month in another decision that shocked the fashion world.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the prestigious magazine Upton told of her rise to stardom and some of the bias that she encountered on the way: \u201cI\u2019m not going to name names, but one agency told me, \u2018You\u2019re too American, and everybody knows American women are lazy.\u2019 I was so offended! I\u2019ve never been so offended! I was like, \u2018You know that you\u2019re in America, right?\u2019 And it wasn\u2019t \u2018American models\u2019\u2014it was \u2018American women are lazy,\u2019 period! I feel like a lot of women would disagree with that. A lot!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about the recent rise of the curvier model? Here at <a href=\"http:\/\/models-direct-reviews.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Models Direct<\/a> we can\u2019t help thinking what a breath of fresh air it is to see some unexpected faces gaining exposure in recent months. 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