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My Secret Life: Chapter One
Date: 12/29/2014, Categories: Taboo, Author: torisunshine, Rating: 28, Source: LushStories
I was nervously shaking as the Town Car stopped in front of the Figueroa hotel where I was going to meet my first client. I desperately wanted to tell the driver to take me back to my tiny Marina del Rey apartment. I desperately wanted my boyfriend to hold me as he begged me to give up my dreams and move back to our small town in Minnesota. I desperately wanted to be anywhere else than where I was at this very moment. Three months earlier I was graduating high school. Twenty-four hours after graduation my boyfriend and I hit the road and headed west. I was going to be a model. I wanted to be a professional model as long as I could remember. I would flip through fashion magazines and dream that one day I would be on those pages. Most parents wouldn’t encourage dreams of that magnitude, but mine did. For my sixteenth birthday my mom drove me down to Minneapolis to meet with a local modeling (talent) agency. After paying a few hundred dollars for modeling classes my career was born. The Friday night fashion shows at The Mall of America or Eden Prairie Mall weren’t as glamorous as Paris or Milan, but it was a start. During one of these shows I caught the eye of one Maureen Prentiss, an agent for a well-known modeling agency that will remain nameless. She was in the cities visiting her parents and was having dinner at the mall when she saw my 5’11, 105lb body walking down the runway. After the show she stormed backstage and told me that I had the look. That night she took me, ...