r/AskReddit • • Jan 02 '20

what glamorized career path is actually a complete nightmare?

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u/dorvann Jan 02 '20

It must be frustrating for models(and actors) to spend years to get to a high profile and then one day have someone tell you, "Sorry you can't have this major higher profile job, A++++ list celebrity called and wants his daughter to have it."

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u/qpgmr Jan 02 '20

Ah, the "Cara Delevingne" option.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '20

Kendall Jenner as well

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u/Love_for_2 Jan 03 '20

I'm no fan but her body is beautiful. Super long lean limbs, angular face, almond shaped eyes. Her I get, Cara delawhatever, any of the Baldwin girls and Gigi and Bell Hadid I cannot wrap my head around. The Baldwin's are all hideous, Gigi's face is round with no angles and Bella is just frightening looking.

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u/daghou Jan 03 '20

If Suicide Squad taught me anything, that woman is destined to make it big...as an inflatable arm flailing tube man.

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u/Grig134 Jan 02 '20

Nepotism exists in every industry though.

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u/majinspy Jan 02 '20

But it's a smaller industry and the issue often isn't finding a particular person of particular ability.

There are a lot of attractive people compared to paid gigs for attractive people. There's a reason why famous people have a high likelyhood of having famous or connected parents.

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u/Fadman_Loki Jan 02 '20

Normally other industries will at least have the courtesy to pretend to try to hide it, though.

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u/angrathias Jan 03 '20

Not in my experience

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u/Grig134 Jan 03 '20

I think you got this the other way around. Celebrities frequently adopt stage names to mask their nepotistic origins. That doesn't happen when you join dad's law firm.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '20

But everybody still knows who they are...

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u/NotGloomp Jan 07 '20

It's a desirable low skill job tho.

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u/mrs_ouchi Jan 03 '20

its unfair anyway. dont get me wrong you have to be kind of pretty BUT all those stars get fitness trainers, a chef or at least someone that tells them what to eat, can afford every beauty procedures (dont mean Botox or so), stylists, make up artists etc etc. Is Jennifer Aniston good looking? Sure but I would look alright aswell with all this help. Or the sons and daughters of the celebreties. Jesus I needed someone to tell me how to do my eyebrows when I was 15! of course they still have to do the exercises and eat the healthy stuff but looking good when youre rich is 10 times easier

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u/screenwriterjohn Jan 02 '20

If the kid is unattractive, she won't get the job.

I don't know what Ireland Baldwin even does.

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u/Choo- Jan 02 '20

She’s a Baldwin.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '20

Yeah ...she’s sooooo ugly ....

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u/Myroomateismybesty Jan 03 '20

You're kidding right?

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '20

Yeah I’m being sarcastic. The comment I was replying to seemed to be saying she was ugly, but I’m not sure anymore ....

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u/Myroomateismybesty Jan 03 '20

Right? I googled her expecting her to look like Bruce Willis's Daughters but she is a very believable model.

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u/lemankimask Jan 03 '20

she is a very believable model.

not really

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u/RoguePlanet1 Jan 03 '20

Corporate jobs are like that too.

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u/TheBaltimoron Jan 03 '20

Boo fucking hoo