Some claim that it seems all my life, I barely struggled to be where I am now. With a good background and undeclared hardships, you’d think I was always seconds away from everything I wanted. BUT just like you, I earned every fruit I bore. Of course life is not always wine and roses, so when things went wrong I had to get inspired. Who among others inspired me the most besides Thomas Hillier?- I’ve posted an article about him previously- are Gemma Ward and Elizabeth Smart.
GEMMA WARD
"She's an exotic blonde, the rarest of creatures."
Ward's brush with modeling was an accidental one. She was discovered in 2002, at the age of fourteen, while accompanying her friends to the Australian modeling competition Search For a Supermodel. As she said herself in a Teen Vogue interview, she ended up being scouted herself:
"I had come straight from my auntie and uncle's farm, and I was wearing this big gray barn jacket with mud all over it. When the scout came up to me, I said, 'No, thank you.' They forged my mum's signature (for mandatory parental consent), and pushed me in front of the cameras."
Her older sister, Sophie Ward, was a model, but stopped because she thought it was boring.
2000-2007
Gemma is one of the very, very few models who look as though they come from another dimension- British photographer Nick Wright. Her appearance later inspired a new generation of baby doll-like models. In September 2004 at only sixteen, Ward became the youngest model to appear on American Vogue as one of the nine Models of the Moment.
And at 17, she became the famous face of Calvin Klein’s Obsession Night perfume billboards bumping Kate Moss out of a job in the process. Ward was reportedly paid $1.3 million for the Calvin Klein campaign and counted similar deals with Burberry and Valentino.
In September 2005, Ward secured a coveted place on the inaugural cover of Vogue China posing between Chinese models Du Juan and Wang Wenqin. A staggering 300,000 copies sold in the first three hours.. "She is every inch blue chip," Vivien's agent Suzie Deveridge said. Right now she's considered the No. 2 model in the world and she isn't even 18 yet.
By 2006 Ward became Australia's brightest fashion star since Elle Macpherson. At the age of 18, Ward became the first model ever to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue magazine.
In October 2007 Ward appeared on the cover of the very first issue of Vogue India, centered between Bollywood actresses Bipasha Basu and Priyanka Chopra. The cover was photographed by photographer Patrick Demarchelier (who also photographed her in Vogue China) and it became the second time Ward has appeared on an inaugural issue. Vogue Paris declared her one of the top 30 models of the 2000s.(Source: Wikipedia)
Last seen:
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2011
Tamara — First Mermaid
Tamara — First Mermaid
Elizabeth Smart was likewise, managed to secure a place as a cover girl but unlike Ward’s glorious entries, Smart wind up on the cover of People magazine to finally reveal some of the secrets of her abduction six years ago. The young girl sparked a nationwide search fury when she was abducted from her Salt Lake City, Utah home and snatched from her bedroom on June 5, 2002 at the age of 14. Unlike most of the stories of child abductions that move past a few days, this one had a miracle ending.
Smart spoke of being forced to drink alocohol and smoke marijuana, which disgusted her. She has said she was forced to “marry” Mitchell in an impromptu ceremony shortly after the kidnapping and that he would often beg her for sex, angering his accomplice Wanda Barzee, who was jealous of the attention Mitchell gave Smart.
Remaining poised throughout her testimony, Smart detailed her nightmarish nine months with Mitchell and Barzee. She said that at one point she was confronted by a police officer looking for Elizabeth Smart and he wanted to look under the veil Mitchell made her wear. She said she was so afraid of Mitchell’s death threats that she didn’t speak up and was heartsick that the officer wasn’t more persistent. The officer, Det. Ron Richey, has said he was devastated to learn later that he had been looking right at Smart and didn’t do more to help her.
When she was finally rescued, she initially denied her identity out of fear that Mitchell would make good on his death threats. Barzee pleaded guilty to federal kidnapping charges last year and was later sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Amazingly, Elizabeth Smart was found alive a full nine months later on March 12, 2003 in Sandy, Utah. In a stunning development she was held captive less than twenty miles from her home, in the company of Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Ileen Barzee. The pair would later be indicted for her kidnapping but ruled unfit to stand trial. There are still ongoing battles to bring them in front of a jury.
Smart spoke of being forced to drink alocohol and smoke marijuana, which disgusted her. She has said she was forced to “marry” Mitchell in an impromptu ceremony shortly after the kidnapping and that he would often beg her for sex, angering his accomplice Wanda Barzee, who was jealous of the attention Mitchell gave Smart.
Remaining poised throughout her testimony, Smart detailed her nightmarish nine months with Mitchell and Barzee. She said that at one point she was confronted by a police officer looking for Elizabeth Smart and he wanted to look under the veil Mitchell made her wear. She said she was so afraid of Mitchell’s death threats that she didn’t speak up and was heartsick that the officer wasn’t more persistent. The officer, Det. Ron Richey, has said he was devastated to learn later that he had been looking right at Smart and didn’t do more to help her.
When she was finally rescued, she initially denied her identity out of fear that Mitchell would make good on his death threats. Barzee pleaded guilty to federal kidnapping charges last year and was later sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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