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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]A HERETIC I AM
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I am by no means intimate with the fashion industry, but it strikes me as rather curious that you would use that term and then expect your readers to believe they are all young teenagers.
I think the industry is too broad and the requirements too varied to make such a blanket statement.
Are a certain percentage of the girls that model for the catalog segment younger? Yes, sure. Are they ALL 12? Not by a long shot.
And FWIW, with a short amount of Googling time, I could bring up scores of women (and Men, for that matter) who continue to do modeling gigs well into their 40's and 50's and beyond, faces I have been seeing since I was a child, and that's been 40 years.
Methinks you labor under a misapprehension.