'You Aren't Losing Ze Weight!' Yelled the Plump Frenchwoman in a Don't Feed the Models T-Shirt ; Like Millions of Young Girls She Thought Modelling Would Be Glamorous. But Here, in a Colourful Denunciation, Petrina Khashoggi Reveals the Truth About the 'Snakes and Sharks' of the Fashion World [Scot Region]

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DESIRED by men and envied by women, their impossibly perfect faces and bodies are used to sell everything from holidays to haute couture. But I have yet to meet a model who isn't deeply insecure about her looks.

Last week's Channel 4 programme The Model Agency took me back to a life I came to loathe. And I felt an immediate rapport with the star of the programme, India Farrell, who so courageously walked out of the cattle market.

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'You Aren't Losing Ze Weight!' Yelled the Plump Frenchwoman in a Don't Feed the Models T-Shirt ; Like Millions of Young Girls She Thought Modelling Would Be Glamorous. But Here, in a Colourful Denunciation, Petrina Khashoggi Reveals the Truth About the 'Snakes and Sharks' of the Fashion World [Scot Region]

In the documentary, Manchesterborn India goes to New York for her first fashion week to showcase herself to the world's Press.

Her London agency, Premier, have created a whirlwind of hype around her as the next big supermodel.

Everything is dependent on how well she does in New York. Expectations are enormous.

Then the unexpected happens.

India, who is 16, decides that the pressure is too much and she just wants to return home, see her friends, go back to school. She wants to be normal again.

Th...

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