{"id":12673,"date":"2015-06-22T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12673"},"modified":"2015-06-22T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T15:20:51","slug":"the-economics-of-being-a-male-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-being-a-male-model\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Being A Male Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/062215_1517_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nikita Redkar wrote about the struggle to be a male model:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Budding models are flown to New York where they&#8217;re given money to pay for expenses such as rent, food, and clothing.<\/li>\n<li>This money is offered to them as a loan and they are expected to pay it back. With interest.<\/li>\n<li>However most modelling jobs don&#8217;t pay anything \u2013 even high end ones such as being photographed on the cover of <em>Vogue<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The few times models are paid it may not be in cash, instead it maybe something like clothing.<\/li>\n<li>The debts that models enter into thus build up quickly and can be up to $20,000 after just a few months.<\/li>\n<li>Since the shelf life of most models is just a few years, they don&#8217;t have a lot of time to pay that debt down.<\/li>\n<li>A model&#8217;s success will depend, in part, on the trends of the day.<\/li>\n<li>These days models with a &#8220;relatable, boyfriend-handsome&#8221; look are popular as it is thought that they can appeal to both males and females.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more about what it&#8217;s like to be in an industry and find a documentary about the subject <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/151705\/unglamorous-documentary-male-models-financial-reality\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=\/feed\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/151705\/unglamorous-documentary-male-models-financial-reality\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=\/feed\/\">Fusion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikita Redkar wrote about the struggle to be a male model: Budding models are flown to New York where they&#8217;re given money to pay for expenses such as rent, food, and clothing. This money is offered to them as a loan and they are expected to pay it back. With interest. However most modelling jobs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/062215_1517_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12677,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12673\/revisions\/12677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}