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It’s a tough life being a has-been supermodel. As sycophantic journalist Marion Hume notes in today’s Sunday Life magazine, “The image of a young woman being so genetically blessed that studies were denied her is unexpectedly sad.”
Apparently Elle McPherson finished in the top 10% of the country in HSC and earned a place to study law, but her modelling career took off and took over. In the process she’s lived all around the world, earned untold riches and climbed to the top of the modelling ladder.
Now that she’s “42 [or] 42 in a few months or whatever,” she says, correcting herself, her career is winding down and it’s time to regret paths not followed. “My biggest disappointment is not going to university because I wanted to experience university life. Today I have a ferocious desire to expand my mind and if I had one thing… I don’t have any regrets but I wish I had the time in the day to read as much as I’d like to read and have time to think.”
But don’t fall into the trap of thinking that Elle is shallow because she’s a model. Her interests are many and varied. “I visit museums, I buy art, I love furniture, I’m interested in philosophy, in poetry, I listen to music constantly.”
It’s oh-so-hard being cursed with a celebrity life. But along with the sacrifices comes wisdom. “I have a much broader spectrum of emotions and understanding of life. If someone comes to me with a concept, I could, organically, take that in and re-express it, whereas I think when I was younger… Now I can take things in at a deeper level so as a conduit, I may be a richer source. Does that make sense?”
Not really.
GrodsThink Ep.31 (16/9/08)
Tuesday 16 October 2007, 6:32 am #Celebrity Gossip News
I know this is an older post… but I still wanted to leave a comment.
I agree with you on this one… Celebrities, Athletes, Models, and Musicians etc all need to be required to have some sort of education. I think it should effect their pay scale. Similar to us in the corporate world.
If they have an education they can get bigger salaries, make more royalties, etc.
Too often Athletes, Musician skip college to take their big shot in life…their lives quickly can crash with, age, injuries, etc.
Then they are left with nothing. This could send the wrong message to the youth, who aspire to be models, musicians, and athletes.
Anyways, great post.
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Tuesday 16 October 2007, 6:40 am #Bridgit Gread
Well Lleyton Hewitt left school after Year 9 and look how he’s turned out - he’s into culture in a big way!
Sunday 20 January 2008, 10:46 pm #Wah
What’s stopping Elle going back to uni? I went to uni at 28, without the benefit of a million dollar career behind me.
And what about all the women who can’t study, not because they are blessed with supermodel attributes but, because war, poverty, sexism, early motherhood or other factors prevent them from even getting a secondary education.
Maybe if famous people stopped going to nightclubs well into their adulthood they’d have time to study.
Fuckwits, the lot of them.
Sunday 20 January 2008, 11:22 pm #krypto
“What’s stopping Elle going back to uni?”
The fact that she’s a vaccuous drunk Wah, that for starters.