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12-Year-Old Girl Fronts Australian Fashion Show
Maddison Gabriel - www.dailymail.co.uk
While models below the age of 16 have been banned from the ongoing London Fashion Week, a 12-year-old girl has been causing quite a stir when she was picked to become the face of one of the biggest fashion shows in the world.
Maddison Gabriel, a blonde and blue-eyed girl who stands at 5-foot-7, has been chosen as the official ambassador of Australia’s Gold Coast Fashion Week. And many people, including Australian Prime Minister John Howard, have slammed the decision, saying she’s too young to glide down the catwalk.
Maddison, however, begs to differ.
"I believe that I can fit into women's clothes. I can model women's clothes, so I should be able to do it," she said.
"It doesn't matter about age, it matters that you can do the job. Modelling is all I've wanted to do since I was six - I don't think I'm too young." [Source]
The youngster also has the support of her mother as well as Fashion Week spokesman Kelly Wieler, who says Maddison won’t be modelling swimwear or lingerie, although the child has already worn a number of revealing outfits for the Queensland event
Maddison has since hired an experienced celebrity agent since the controversy broke, and has already signed an exclusive media deal.
I really don't see what the big deal is. Look at Brooke Shields. She was a child model, even played a virgin being broken into the world of prostitution in Pretty Baby when she was very, very young, and she's on top of the world!! With close parental supervision and being taught right from wrong, this little girl could really go far.
If you look at the runway models currently dominating the catwalk, you'd notice that they ALL look terribly young with their tiny bodies that don't look a day over 10 years old. Who knows how old those girls really are? Not to mention what these girls go through to keep their figures the way they are. Maddison is at the age where it's natural for her body to look the way it does, let her make money while she can. Once it develops more, hopefully she'll still model, tastefully, only then for a market that is appropriate for her figure.
I say go for it! As a society, I think we CAN and SHOULD still have hope that there are people out there that have morals and values and will prove us all wrong in our assumptions that this could only end badly!