In her early years, Seay-Reynolds said she was forced to live in a small apartment with eight other women where 'there was a scale that you had to step on to get into the kitchen.' I have no idea because they don’t give you receipts,' she said. 'I don’t know if that is how much I should have made or if my agency just took that money. In one instance, she recalled earning just $130 for six weeks of 'grueling' work. In addition, Seay-Reynolds said she, and many others, were financially exploited by agencies. Seay-Reynolds also claimed that talent scouts are known to scour eating disorder clinics and even refugee camps in the search for new faces. Wilkenfeld also said that if Seay-Reynolds had let someone in management know about being told to consume cotton-balls, that agent 'would have been fired on the spot.' The unfortunate part is we’re not on every shoot.' In response to that allegation, NEXT co-founder Joel Wilkenfeld told Variety in part: 'We hope that that model would call us if they were exposed to conditions such as this. Upon returning to the US, Seay-Reynolds said she was told the photographer overseeing the shoot was notorious for putting the talent in those kinds of precarious situations. She will die,"' she added.Īt the same shoot, Seay-Reynolds said that she was also forced to traverse through boiling hot springs that could have exposed her to water so scorching it would burn the flesh off.Īt one point, Seay-Reynolds said that she lived in a tiny apartment with eight other models with only Diet Coke allowed in the fridge Luckily, the stylist on the shoot was like, "That’s not happening. 'The photographer even asked us to jump over a crevice on top of the glacier, which plunged at least 20 feet. She claims the pair were also told to change while at the top of the glacier because they were told it would take too long for them to get down. The rest of the crew involved in the shoot wore parka coats, she said. Seay-Reynolds and a colleague then scaled a glacier in heels and 'gauzy slip dresses' while enduring a hailstorm. And parks the car, and he’s like, "Climb!"' 'We pull up to a glacier above freezing, ice-covered waters. In a shocking new expose from Variety, Seay-Reynolds said that she was told to eat cotton balls in order to feel fullĪt the same time, she said that she secured a 'Lord of Rings-esque' photoshoot in Iceland.
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