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A Tale of Co-eds and Cover Girls
Crown
July 2006
390 pages
ISBN: 0307337189
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
It's the late 1980s--hair is big, Lycra is rampant, and
supermodels rule the earth. Every girl in America dreams of
becoming the next Cindy, Claudia, or Naomi, and
seventeen-year-old Emily Woods is no different. She looks
different, though--striking enough to start a career.
Despite the protestations of her hippie parents, she plunges
into the glamorous but grueling world of professional
modeling. But Emily is more than just a small-town beauty
with stars in her eyes: She's been accepted to Columbia
University, and she's not about to let couture and klieg
lights get in the way of an Ivy League education. Thus begins Emily's double life: cramming for a final at an
exotic swimsuit shoot in the Caribbean; fighting the
freshman fifteen to avoid the wrath of her agent; owning a
closet full of Versace but nothing to wear to a frat party;
sitting in a women's studies class while ads featuring girls
she knows are picked apart; juggling the attention of both
college guys and the sought-after fashion photographer of
the moment. But as Emily pursues her chic fantasy of Vogue covers and
prestigious cosmetic campaigns, her priorities start to
shift. In the ultra-competitive quest for supermodel fame
and fortune, strutting off the runway to study Shakespeare
might mean letting another pretty face snag her stilettos,
and Emily's thisclose to getting a leg up on her dreams. Before long, the seamier side of the fashion
industry--cocaine and cads, collagen and implants, fad diets
and eating disorders--becomes close up and personal. All of
a sudden, Emily realizes how far she's strayed from her
dream of having it all. With sliding grades that threaten
her future at Columbia and spotty bookings that put her
career as a model in question, Emily is finally forced to
make a choice between style and substance. Dazzling, dramatic, and as real as it gets, Model Student
shines a spotlight behind the scenes and reminds us why you
can't judge a book by its cover girl.
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