Unusual photos of models. The most terrible models in the world - photos of models with a non-standard appearance
Beauty is a relative concept, and its canons sometimes change very quickly. Our review contains photos nine custom models from around the world, destroying stereotypes and proving that you can be beautiful, desirable and in demand, no matter what.
Girl without a leg - Victoria Modesta
The Latvian singer and model has undergone 15 ineffective surgeries on her leg, which was injured during childbirth. The leg had to be amputated soon after. But her self-confidence did not diminish. Rather, on the contrary. She inspires many with her example.
Two meters of beauty - Erica Irvine
35-year-old model from California, Erica Irvine, due to her height - 2 meters 5 centimeters - is considered one of the tallest and most popular models in the world.
Alien on the podium - Masha Telna
Ukrainian model with amazing big eyes. She is often called "alien" and "beautiful elf".
Sexy Lily McMenamy
A rising star in the modeling business, to put it mildly, too much custom model Lily McMenamy conquered the catwalks of world brands and won a myriad of men's hearts.
Provocative model - Melanie Gaydos
Melanie Gaidos is a German-born art model based in New York City. Melanie's unusual appearance attracts photographers and artists. The girl often participates in the most provocative photo shoots, not embarrassed to be naked. Bald head, lack of eyebrows and eyelashes, cleft lip - all this creates vivid image making a strong impression on others. Melanie became an Internet star after starring in the video of the German band Rammstein for the song Mein Herz Brennt (My heart is on fire) in 2012.
Appetizing Denise Bido
The 28-year-old Puerto Rican model is considered one of the most sought after XXL models. Bido is proud to have become good example the fact that you can always be successful and beautiful, for all women heavier than 55 kilograms
Androgynous Casey Legler
This French model was the first to be contracted as a man. She advertises men's clothing. Legler's height is 188 centimeters. Short haircut, sharp cheekbones and strong-willed chin make Casey look very much like a young man.
Why hide - how often we look at those who walk the catwalk and take pictures for "gloss", and sigh: "Well, what do designers find in her - an ugly model!" External attractiveness has always been the subject of heated debate: everyone has different tastes, and every decade brings “new trends” in beauty.
However, as soon as you look at the pictures of the ugliest models of today, you will think that the designers are just mocking us. Or maybe they chose such "muses" specifically to shock and draw attention to their work?
The “frog princess” phenomenon: ugly models
Canadian Sierra Sky is the muse of Jacobs
Sierra Sky is a Canadian model who burst onto the catwalks thanks to Marc Jacobs. Here is how the girl is described on one of the sites: “She is unusually high cheekbones, porcelain skin and mermaids long hair“That’s what makes her stand out.” Other epithets that apply to Sierra: "Swan", "Renaissance". But still, it seems that she did not come out of the Renaissance, but from the Middle Ages, when girls thin to transparency, as if bloodless, were in fashion.
Laura O'Grady: she does not interfere with protruding ears
Irish Laura O'Grady is also making headway as a model. But she has a serious defect: large protruding ears. Laura was often teased about them when she was little, but the girl never thought about the operation. Many of us would also not dare to do this - after all, you can always disguise them with curls! However, Laura is a model and her appearance is a tool. And sometimes annoying lop-earedness attracts the eye too much and distracts from everything else. Therefore, O'Grady got into our top ugly models.
Our compatriot Liza Ostanina
And here is another quote: “Liza Ostanina has an unusual striking beauty: wide-spaced ice Blue eyes, bright skin, soft freckles. This made her a favorite on the catwalks of Gucci, Prada, Dior, Balenciaga, Givenchy and Alexander McQueen." Fine. We are happy for our compatriot. But where is the "striking beauty"? "Unusual" - that's for sure. But not more. She herself says that she was amazed when she received her first offer from a major modeling agency. Imagine - we are also very surprised.
Kelly Mittendorf: Don't you feel like turning away?
22-year-old ugly Arizona model Kelly Mittendorf looks like a monster in some photos. And this is the man who inspired photographers from the magazines Vogue, L "officiel", "Elle" and others. What's the secret? There are people you want to admire. But Kelly wants to ... turn away. These eyes with overhanging eyelids , repulsive mouth, strange nose... It's like some kind of joke!
Dutch Daphne Groenenveld: a hybrid of Klum and ... an alien
Another member of our top ugliest models is an almost 22-year-old blonde from the Netherlands, Daphne Groenveld. Her career began in 2010 when she was only 15 years old. She has worked for such fashion houses as Donna Karan, Emilio Pucci, Jason Wu, Prada, Marc Jacobs, Robert Cavalli, Versace, Gucci. Daphne attracts and repels at the same time. She looks like some kind of love fruit famous model(maybe Heidi Klum) and… an alien.
Mexican with Japanese roots Issa Lish
And here is another "alien" on the podium - Issa Lish, a Mexican. True, of Japanese origin (and this is clear, you just have to look at this girl out of the corner of your eye). She was discovered by a modeling agency employee while working at her father's sushi restaurant. This was the punishment for bad marks At school. It turned out that the “work shift” became happy, and now Issa has already managed to appear on the cover of the Mexican and Japanese Vogue and worked for Jacobs and Prada.
Confident Lindsey Wixon
We don’t know how anyone, but this ugly model reminds us of a pig with rodent teeth. Excuse me, Miss Lindsey Wixon, but this jaw and this upturned wide nose add no charm to you at all! We do not know what and how those who took Lindsey in model business. But, to the credit of many New York agents (IMG included), one by one they refused Wixon, saying that her small mouth and "gap" between her teeth made her unsuitable for professional work. However, the girl turned out to be persistent and made her way, advertising the clothes of Alexander McQueen, Miu Miu, Jill Stuart.
Very strange Yekelin Stange
The rating of the ugliest models is continued by another native of the Netherlands, Jekelin Stange. Well, it cannot be called disgusting right away - rather, it is another "alien" with long ears, clearly outlined by the line of the cheekbones and widely spaced elongated gray eyes. Well, if in order to promote clothes from Dior, Kenzo, Chanel you need to be such a “cosmic” creature, we wash our hands, where can we go with our classic facial features!
Alien-rat-demon-goblin-gremlin: Molly Bair about herself
When Molly Bair was little, her peers laughed at her: too thin, tall, with a strange face. She herself admits (in an interview with CNN): “I could not even dream that someday a girl with a monobrow, glasses and an iodine-colored T-shirt could get into Italian Vogue!”. In the same conversation, she said that she lives in an "alien-rat-demon-goblin-gremlin" atmosphere. Wow self-esteem! This does not prevent Molly from working on international catwalks for Prada, Moschino, Vera Wang, Balenciaga, Donna Karan, Michael Kors, Gucci, Miu Miu and other global brands.
"Inflatable Doll" by Lily McMenamy
The top ugly models are completed by Lily McMenamy, a hereditary fashion model (her mother, Kristen McMenamy, was a top model in the 1990s and was unconventional and androgynous). Lily says that her mother is her favorite model, who had a hard time on her daughter a huge impact. McMenamy manages to combine some kind of special ugliness with a challenge and self-confidence. There are moments when she seems to be gorgeous, and the next moment it seems to you that you are looking at a rubber doll with pouting lips.
We would like to draw your attention to the highest paid fashion models with far from the most standard appearance.
Chantelle Brown-Young
The first world-famous model with vitiligo disease, which causes skin pigmentation disorders. Extensive white spots appeared on the body and face of Chantalle in early childhood and at first they did not let her live in peace. Because of her peculiarity, the girl for a long time was the object of ridicule from her peers and even thought about suicide, but after moving from embittered Toronto to sunny California, her life changed dramatically. Once in the USA, the owner perfect figure and chiseled features got on the famous Tyra Banks show "America's Next Top Model". After her appearance on the screen, famous fashion houses lined up to sign a contract with the girl, and Chantalle herself had the opportunity to support all people suffering from vitiligo.
Girls all over the world are most afraid of gaining weight, and professional fashion models excess weight threatened with job loss. However, there are exceptions. For example, famous model plus size Ashley Graham. The girl began her career at the age of 12 and soon became very popular. To date, Graham successfully advertises underwear for curvaceous women, shoots for Vogue, Glamour, and ELLE magazines, and teaches young beauties her craft.
Diandra Forrest is one of the most famous modern albino models. Unfortunately, in her youth, Diandra, like many of her fellow sufferers, had a hard time. Perhaps the girl would have lived in fear all her life if, by chance, the famous photographer Shamir Khan had not noticed her. After several photo shoots, Diandra's career quickly took off - she signed contracts with several well-known modeling agencies, and also starred in videos for Kanye West and Beyoncé.
Moffi - beautiful girl With regular features face, delicate skin and excellent figure. However, its main highlight lies in its drawback - Modelo suffers from severe strabismus. The young Englishwoman had no idea that this disease would open the world of show business to her. It all started with a photo shoot in Pop Magazine, organized for Moffi by her friend. The original appearance of the girl was immediately noticed by the employees of the famous modeling agency that made Kate Moss and Lily Cole famous. Since then, Modelo has been full of those who want to sign a contract with her.
Victoria Modesta
For Victoria Modesta, the loss of a limb - the girl had to amputate her leg as a result medical error- became the beginning of a successful career as a model and singer. Victoria is often compared to Lady Gaga and Katy Perry for her looks and manner of dressing. In the girl's wardrobe, in addition to many bright and extravagant outfits, there is a whole collection of unusual prostheses that a celebrity puts on for various occasions. Victoria is proud of her body, loves revealing outfits and posed naked in front of the cameras more than once. Now the star of Latvian origin lives and works in London: she shoots for commercials, produces her own videos and hosts numerous guests in her restaurant.
But from time to time there are models that do not fall under these standards, and fashion brands hire people with an extraordinary appearance.
Here are the models whose appearance, age, rare disease or imaginary flaws once again Prove that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Chantelle Brown-Young or Winnie Harlow, 19, is a Canadian model who suffers from a rare skin pigmentation disorder called vitiligo. She participated in the popular television show America's Next Top Model's, and then began to represent the clothing company Desigual.
The girl proves that in the world there is a place for girls with any skin color.
Shaun Ross was born in the Bronx, New York, becoming the first albino male model in the modeling business. He was originally a dancer with the Alvin Ailey Theater Company and then began modeling at the age of 16.
He has appeared in the show of the famous model Tyra Banks, and has also modeled for major fashion publications such as Alexander McQueen and Givenchy, Italian Vogue, Paper Magazine and Another Man. Sean also took part in the video clips of Katy Perry "E.T.", Beyoncé "Pretty Hurts", Lana del Rey "Tropico".
“I would never have thought that I could be a model, because in my eyes, the way society has painted it for me, I am completely abnormal, unacceptable and ugly,” he said.
Model Ashley Graham from Nebraska has been on the scene for several years, but her career breakthrough came in 2014 when she signed with IMG Models along with four other plus size models.
Since then, she has been featured on the covers of famous magazines such as Voque, Harper's Bazzar, Glamour, and Elle, and in 2016 on cover of Sports illustrated.
Ashley, who wears size 54, is referred to as the so-called plus-size models, however, in Lately In the fashion industry, more and more began to think about what size a plus-size model can be considered from.
The girl herself declares that she loves herself for who she is.
When you first look at this model, it is difficult to understand what is special about it. In fact, she is him.
Andrej Pejic was born in Bosnia, but at the age of 8 he moved with his mother and older brother to Australia. In 2007, Andrei was noticed by an agent when he was working at McDonalds.
Pejic began his career at the age of 17, not only as a man, but also as a female model, appearing at the shows of men's and women's clothing Jean Paul Gaultier, DKNY, Jeremy Scott and Marc Jacobs.
In 2014, Andrej Pejic changed gender and became Andrija.
Alex Minsky is a former infantryman who lost his leg in a mine explosion in Afghanistan.
As a result of the incident, Alex fell into a coma for 47 days, he had a traumatic brain injury, numerous burns and amputation of his leg. “My injuries were so severe that I thought I would be a vegetable for the rest of my life,” he said. After the death of his brother, he fell into a long depression and became addicted to alcohol. However, after some time, Alex was able to overcome his habit and began to visit Gym, where one photographer spotted him.
Since then, Minsky has appeared on the cover of numerous magazines, and through his story, he tries to inspire others to never give up on their dreams, even in the face of tragedy.
Jillian Mercado is a custom model, fashion blogger who has been in wheelchair due to muscular dystrophy.
She applied to participate in the Diesel campaign, and soon became interested in her. artistic director Nicolas Formichetti company, and the girl was invited to participate in the brand project.
Gillian was initially worried about how people would react to photos of her in a wheelchair, but the reaction was positive and many supported her.
Carmen Dell'Orefice is an 83-year-old model of 70 years who first appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine in October 1947 at the age of 16. She posed for Salvador Dali and worked with renowned photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Norman Parkinson and Richard Avedon.
Carmen has appeared on the covers of V Magazine, Vogue Italia, Harper's Bazaar and Vanity Fair. As a child of immigrants, she broke out of poverty by achieving a brilliant career.
Del Orefice is an important reminder that beauty doesn't always depend on age. The model herself is not afraid of age, believing that the older she gets, the more true to herself she becomes.
Moffy, despite her beauty, talent and youth, is not like the usual supermodels, as she suffers from strabismus. Physical handicaps most girls deserve jobs in the modeling industry, but Moffi's strabismus is a disorder in which the eyes look into different directions helped her find a job.
Moffi became famous after shooting on the cover of POP magazine and conquered everyone with her unconventional beauty. Later, the modeling agency Storm signed a contract with her, which at one time opened Kate Moss.
Rick Genest, known by his nickname "Zombie Guy" - Canadian actor, artist and model was born in Quebec. Unusual in that his entire body and head are covered with tattoos. He got his first tattoo at the age of 16, and later Montreal tattoo artist Frank Lewis turned his body into a work of art.
Rick was soon spotted by designer Nicola Forimchetti and appeared in Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" video. He also began presenting Thierry Mugler's fall/winter collection at Paris Fashion Week.
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When we talk about supermodels, we usually think of the humanoid Barbie and Ken, the beauty ideals of the late 20th and early 21st century. But ideals change, and so does our idea of beauty. The media reflects our obsession appearance, youth and sexuality, placing them on billboards and magazine covers.
The modeling industry has changed a lot over the past few years, challenging public opinion about what "beautiful" and "desired" means. Supermodels now come in all shapes and sizes and don't necessarily look like Victoria's Secret Angels.
Thank you plastic surgery And modern technologies, now it is not difficult to be the same, and now no one needs it. We start looking for something new and unusual. Below are the 10 most unusual models in the world.
Andrea (Andrew) Pejic
Andrej Pejic was the most famous androgynous male model. Now he is a transgender woman. Modeling agents noticed him at the age of 17, when at that time the guy was still working part-time at McDonald`s. Ranked 98th in the world ranking of the 100 most sexy women according to FHM.
Casey Legler
Casey Legler is a former Olympic swimmer and now a supermodel. It is noteworthy for this model that this is the first woman who signed a contract as male model. She got into the modeling business after a friend showed her pictures to the agency. So, they took her to Ford Models and yes, we repeat, they took her as a male model!
Daphne Self
They say that a modeling career ends when she stops looking young. Many people retire at forty.
But Daphne Self went against the rules - she has been in the modeling industry for 60 years and is not going to leave anywhere. Daphne is a British age model representing such large and famous brands like D&G and Tata-Naka. Now she is 85 and she looks amazing!
Rick Genest
Rick Genest (main photo), better known as "Zombie Kid", was born and raised in Canada. IN adolescence he was mountain climbing (and was going to continue to do so) until he met Frank Lewis, a tattoo artist from Montreal. Then Lewis turned Genest into a living work of art. You must have seen a photo of a guy who is all solid tattoo of a skeleton - this is Rick.
Unusual tattoos all over his face and body made Genest popular after he was spotted by Nicola Formichetti, Lady Gaga's fashion director. Later, Rick starred in Gaga's video for the song Born this way, as well as in several films, including "47 Ronin" with Keanu Reeves in the title role.
In addition, he is a successful model, collaborating with many brands. For example, he starred in commercials foundation(creative, right?)