Show I Page 18 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday November 24 1997 Kezia Continued from Page 9 “Here's what's craning get your hair done this way" Brijin down at Kakra does it just so and the snickers start But sure enough when the magazine or catalog comes out months later she’s looking hip Not perfect mind That wide nose those lips — “They said never wear dark lipstick that it would protrude and win out over the rest of my face in the pic- ture" Even if they were wrong about that the pros were right about the picture ICfziVs a good picture good enough to interest the Germans who pay $3000 a day It might be added that they don't know the half of it Kdzia can sing having studied vocal performance at Utah State Uni- versity She's opera leaving rock to brother Tslmadge who has just signed a $4 million recording contract with Columbia and the producer of Metallica She flips through her portfolio here she's sultry there sweet on this page frisky on that page feral She pauses over a photo showing a falcon perched on her hand “I had to look like I was intensely into the sport” she says “I was terrified This glove was covered with blood from the bird eating a dead pigeon” In another spread she’s romping with a dog “That’s a real cor-ral- ed the walk and that's not natural for her Or for any evolved creature really It’s sure not the erect beauty pageant walk Forget about the book on the head “If you stand up that way and get to the end of the runway you’re going to fall over” Rather it’s “sitting on your hip so you're almost kind of sulking but with shoulders straight Make sure your arms are relaxed so you glide down the runway and the clothes stand out” It’s a walk an attitude that has to be practiced in Kezia's case at the foot of her bed to Paul's coaching “Hundreds of girls look as pret- ty as you” she says “It’s the technique that sets you apart The way you stand way you sit take there is techoff your jacket nique in every single breath you take” She came away from her fust class at Style Inc in Logan with 13 pages of notes ana saying “This is way harder than 1 thought” But then she had another thought of the $330 just paid course for the 12-we-ek So she and her sister “practiced our guts out” “It almost doesn't take the Ban-naty- ne physical any more If you look at pictures there's some unattractive girls Time days it takes a lot of skill and technique and hard work" The attitude can be sulky on the runway but it better be sugary elsewhere “Never complain” as Kdzia’s mentor Una Bullen told her So when they’re standing out in the cold and she’s in a swimsuit shivering and they ask how she’s doing she says “Great!” smile” she says “I was still laughing about what had just happened in the previous frame I was bending over and he bit my bottom” The animal Actually in his fanged way the rascal was getting at the most important part of Kdzia what’s inside The unseen — the practice the attitude the integrity — is what sells The invisible cranes out in her skills For instance she can walk And they’re supposed to say “She’s easy to wok with!” “Any model that ever threw a temper tantrum would never work again” Kdzia says The models pull in for attitude — character — checks on Mon- days the days Go-swith clients interviews are days go-s- ee ee UNITED PARCEL SERVICE HOLIDAY HOURS 95 West 1800 N Logan Dec 24 Motvday-Frida1030-6:3- y 0 Sat 13 & 20 ©I 1100-2:0- 0 designers who will pore over hundreds of photos looking for “the look” and then call tea models in no makeup These days we a rat race incidentally It’s never just one job She returns to Loon and people ask “Did you see Rent? Did you see Bendy and die Beast?" And she says “No I’m so tired that at the end of the day I’m riding the subways falling asleep on my model bag” It hasn’t always been a great day but she can look herself in the mirror Not a lie passes her lips When Mode magazine asks her age and she says 27 and they look shocked and give the job to a kid well them's the breaks “Tell them you're 231” the agency says but K6zia replies “It Emme Be” These are agents not angels Continued from Page 9 doesn’t mean that much to me to and so seeing their commissions fly so airily away they may weep They also know not to send their Utah Mormon out for bra and panties ads “My rule is that I’m not going to wear anything more immodest than what I would wear on the beach” But integrity Kizia says “gets me lots of jobs Clients know I'm not going to have a hangover not come stoned not look trashy They know I have standards” Modeling career can be launched from Logan By Mika Ingraham features writer “If there’s one thing I would want people to know” model Rfzia Whitteker says “it’s that you can do it and be in Logan Utah All the training you need is right here” That would be at Style Inc the scouting agency that’s the first step down the runway Klzia Amy Wuthrich Julie Weber Tknya Stewart — don't think Cache Valley women can’t handle a major move like the European Wide And die basic Front Resent? Kierra Whitteker can do that not that it doesn't Five-year-o- ld take work But what Style seeks is something they can’t teach style “We’re looking for energy and personality says president Tina Bullen “Drive and character” Funk too just now Scouts still check the face and bone structure and all that but these are freewheeling days when Tina can spot a redhead in Puis and say “Yes!" because the redhead is like nothing tra- ditional The French meanwhile are here knocking on her door and hiring three models at $3000 each for their Switcher clothing ads Just now at least 23 Style Inc models are out front in print film runways and as hostesses The 20 or so models a month taking classes at Style see first of all that the 3--9 113-pou- nd edition is nowhere in sight Instead they see that models are just like themselves after lots of practice The agency does have its girl and guy watchers (iris a scout- ing agency after all) but Kdzia’s advice is “Don’t stand around waiting to be scouted” That goes especially for the plus-siz- es who right now are needed to shake the money tree Everything is in her attitude She says ’Rise above hard times Have the confidence you need to be in a negUgde in a picture'” wrote “and invite him over for a banana split!” Speak up! Eat Up! "We have to get away from labeling food ’good and ‘bad’ What the heck is bad food?” Emme began this Associated Students of USU lecture by modeling an Aggie Ice Cream irt but later allowed that you can have too much of a good thing “Stop youndf Ask Why am I putting the whole gallon of ice cream in my bowl?” But it could be respectfully asked of Emme Why not? It seems she’s got lots of everything else She's plus-siwith a career to match — at age 34 her life is a bowl of cherries plus ice cream Glamour magazine's woman of die year had the strong scent of ze celebrity being trailed around by a CBS crew filming Ladies Home Journal's Most Fascinating Women of 1997 which will air Dec 29 Next stop would be home New York City where she would be David Letterman’s guest “Watch the show” she urged the audience “We’re having some fira with one of his cameramen" This was a heavyweight all right one of People magazine’s Most Beautiful People of the World and to someone like Kdzia more than a professional model Emme is a role model “Emme pioneered the path” Kdzia had said before going in Coming out of the ballroom even more of a fan “This was new to me I’ve listened to her quite a few times and kfaii was followed her career and all those pmnml things she said made it easier to relate to her” Pjiwm detailed an (uncomfortable adolescence in a “family of constant dieters” Her stepfather took a marker and circled all the areas on her body which he said would be fatty There were guys who said “You’re going to squash me” and therapy and worse a reporter’s job in Flagstaff Ariz where she overdosed on macaroni and cheese to the point where she can no longer stomach die stuff But she feels free to go with whatever else is on the plate and right now there's plenty in every sense She’s campaigning to change society “Try not to promote that thinner is healthy she told her audience “I want to dispel the myth that we’re all supposed to be the same” “We have to strip away all die blame we put on our bodies” Where is the compassion? Where are the workout clothes for larger women? Where are the romantic film roles? And why do designers still think that everyone’s a teeny teen? ‘There are 62 million plus-siz- e women That’s a lot of buying power” |