Where have all the real models gone?

BACK in the day, fashion models were mostly refined young ladies taking a twirl on the catwalk before Mr Right swept them up the aisle to a life of privileged obscurity.

Where have all the real models gone?

Then along came the supermodel who stalked the catwalk like a predator tracking her fee: think Linda Evangelista, arguably the best-known model of her time (and certainly the most hard-necked), who famously quipped that she didn’t get out of bed for less than $10,000.

More than 20 years on, Evangelista and her supermodel contemporaries - Campbell, Crawford, Turlington et al — are still strutting the world stage. But what of their less superlative counterparts? The miscellaneous MAWS (models, actresses, whatever) the dabblers, the improbably pneumatic Page 3 girls? Where are they now?

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