10-year-old Girl gives voice to new Chinese-American cartoon

Jade-Lianna broke into show business at the age of 2, when a director casting a commercial for Welch's grape juice approached her and her mother, Kathleen Peters, at the Grand Avenue Mall (now the Shops at Grand Avenue).
"How would you like to have your daughter appear in a commercial?" he asked Peters, intrigued by the precocious toddler's presence, personality and verbal abilities.
Peters sized up the director and said: "She has a mind of her own, you know. Why don't you ask her?"
Jade-Lianna signed on, and her parents secured an agent for her. A spate of commercials and print ads followed, for U.S. Cellular and McDonald's, among others.
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Child models-Glamour Model Pageant

According to several parents who emailed, for about a $100 registration fee, they attended a weekend Glamour Model Pageant, entering their very young daughters, typically about two years old. The pageant had as many as 75 children.
Then a day, a week, or two weeks later, they received a letter from Young Faces Inc.
Young Faces Inc. states in the letter they have seen their child, or a photo of their child, and ask the parents to bring their child to an interview with Young Faces. (Some parents wonder how they saw their child, but they attend the interview, nevertheless.)
At the interview, Young Faces Inc. solicits about $150 per child for advertising space in a "book" or "catalog," which they say is sent to modeling agencies, the idea being modeling agents will see the child, then sign them to the agency, so they can receive work as child models.

Young Faces tells parents they are not a modeling agency and they get no commission if an agency picks up a child. They just give out their name and address, and the agency contacts them directly. All they do is publish a directory, a publication they say is sent to companies and individuals who utilize the services of contracting models. Read More

Child Modeling Competition

I have had a little more
recent (:-) experience with it, being that my now 5 year old son is a
former baby model. I enjoyed it for 3 reasons 1) My ego *loved* seeing my
beautiful baby in print 2) The money made a substantial nest egg in
Teagan's savings account & 3) It was kind of fun.

I disliked it for basically only one reason....the competition was so
fierce, other mothers (I guess you'd call them stage moms) were,
more often than not, unfriendly, rude and pushy. I did it with Teagan
to have some fun, get to see my baby in the paper, and maybe make some
friends.....the friend part just didn't stand a chance.


I think one of the most important consideration to make when deciding
about baby modeling is: what is your child's personality like?
Is he/she naturally sunny, is he/she a "performer"? Is he/she
willing to be manipulated (maybe a truly accurate word depending on
how you view child modeling...) into whatever position the photographer
and assistant want him/her to be in? read more


Teagan was a natural. He would bestow incredible killer smiles on
anyone who showed any interest in receiving one, would entertain
everyone on the set with his antics, and seemed oblivious to the
fact that it was work.


We only did it for about a year though, because then we moved to Berkeley
for 10 months, got an agent in San Francisco and saw the competition was so
incredible,(you would be "summoned" to these horrendous "cattle calls")
it just wasn't fun or enjoyable any more. Read More

Ambitious Child Models

China's pushy parents are shunning traditional ambitions for their children and have a new profession they hope their kids will conquer - modelling.

Stiff competition for top universities have parents fretting more than ever over their child's future.

So in a bid to find a new niche in which their children can succeed, parents are turning to the catwalk instead.

Mothers at China's most prestigious modelling school at New Silk Road spent the day ahead of curtain call at a Beijing shopping mall fussing over the children and putting the finishing touches on pink cheeks and glossy lips.

More than 100 contestants, none older than about 13, are taking part in two days of competition to show off their skills. Read More