The magazine was really under fire for over-sexualizing a young girl When she was 9 years old, she appeared on the cover of Haven, dressed in a two-piece vintage circus costume, with her hair teased and holding a light globe. 9-year-old cover girl from Harven magazine She is now 19 years old and we could not find any new photos of her doing modeling work, she might turned into a different profession. She was the youngest model ever to feature in London Fashion Week, in 2006 when she was discovered by iconic fashion designer Zandra Rhodes. There’s a lot on her plate, that’s for sureĪs the years passed by, Momoka is now 18 years old and trying to become an actress while still doing modeling to pay the bills. Since then, she has numerous modeling gigs, while trying to stay up to date with her studies, ballet lessons and her hobbies. Her modelling career began with her appearance at the 48th MFJ Grand Prix, in Japan, in 2016.She was only 12 years old at that time and was looking like a real “race queen”. People say this all the time but we need to keep saying it, until we don't need to anymore.Today is is already 21 and has grown a lot since she rose to fame, but one thing is for sure, her beauty only got better with age, here’s a picture of how she looks like now: Open dialogue about body image and body hair, what's real or not real is crucial. Even without Photo shop, there's lighting, angles, professional make-up, and the photo you see is edited from hundreds where the model doesn't look like that. I've never felt pushed to change myself and I now know first hand that no model genuinely looks as she does in that swimwear shoot. I can't believe it was the fashion industry that made me realise this.Įxperiencing the fashion industry from the inside has been eye opening. I think it's wrong to feel obliged, from such a young age, to do one or another, feel that one is good and one is bad. ![]() The thing is I don't actually think it's wrong to keep or remove body hair. Not because I wanted to but because I thought I had to. From then on, like every girl In school, I meticulously removed every last hair from my body the night before P.E. Saying I really ought to start shaving my underarms because they were looking quite hairy and besides, they all shaved. Younger me who's biggest anxiety was body hair since the first remarks from peers. After all, the brand message was: you're beautiful no matter what. resolved not to offer to shave just to please I graced the shoot hairy arm-pitted and proud. My freedom of choice over how I care for my body slowly starts trickling away. And all not because I fancy it but because I feel I should fancy it. I begin thinking maybe I should have waxed my legs, maybe I should laser remove hair on my bikini line in order to avoid bumps, I should be more militant about remembering to shave my armpits. But the moment I imagine other people might mind I begin to mind on their behalf too. I feel feminine regardless of never shaving my legs, I don't care that my vagina doesn't look like a Barbie dolls, it's not meant to. The thing is I like all these 'imperfections'. And I'd forgotten to shave my armpits for long enough that they were nowhere near silkily airbrushed. The bumps on my recently waxed bikini line wouldn't be buffed. My legs, which I now never shave wouldn't be made smooth. Airbrushing fixes the 'flaws' you wouldn't even notice, makes you perfectly unobtainable, even for yourself. I love working for a positive cause.Īs I checked into my hotel room after fitting, the implications of no airbrushing began to sink in. ![]() We were going to be open and honest about our bodies, so I got really excited. I then discovered we would be wearing lingerie and swimwear. While there, another model, the face of the brand, proudly announced they operated a no Photoshop policy, to promote a realistic standard of beauty. On arrival I went straight to the fitting. Surprisingly, working as a model within the fashion industry has made me realise that I am the one in control. I decided to stop shaving my legs when I first started modeling 2 years ago I promised I would stay true to this. Not to be dictated to by society (pornography, social media, or even the fashion industry). So I decided I was going to take back ownership of my body. She can't make an informed decision because society has made it for her, society has told her to dislike her public hair - her leg hair, her armpit hair, her top lip hair, her downy back and her too bushy eye brows. How can a 12-year-old possibly make an informed decision on how she wants to wear her body hair? How can she decide she dislikes it before she's even tried it? She can't. There is something disturbing about that fact. ![]() A couple of years ago I realised I had been religiously removing my body hair almost constantly since I was 12.
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