Work It! More Parents Push Children Toward Modeling

Wall Street Journal:

Natacha Andrews recently signed up her 4-year-old daughter, Anaya, with a modeling agency. Anaya says she wants to be "like Tyra"--that is, model-turned-media-personality Tyra Banks.

Her mother, a 36-year-old Phoenix attorney, has another motivation. "I know people who successfully saved money this way," she says. In a weak economy, with five kids' college tuitions to plan for, Ms. Andrews says, "I want to make the most out of whatever resources we have."

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Comments

[Kim Torrent]

11:27 AM on 11/04/2009

The exploitation of these children is sad.....

[regulargal]

09:17 PM on 11/04/2009

Were you referring to "your girls", or to the children in article?