re: What is life like for a catalog model?

I know the last JCPenney Big Book was in 2009 as it was all moving toward online "E-zines". Don't know anything about the guy you posted but my daughter was quite beautiful and a print and runway fashion model for a bunch of different entities from age 9 - Disney, Dillard's, Kohls, Justice (former Limited Too), Arizona Jeans, H&M, Speedo, Swim'n Sport, American Girl, Vogue Bambini, etc.

By age 12 she had earned enough for much of her college tuition and we got trips, hotels or condos in L.A., Florida, New York, good tickets to Yankees games, a guided Disney World experience which brought us to the front of every line. She did miss a few days of school but no problem as she was a gifted student. We did know some models who were obsessed with successful careers and did hundreds of shoots and were home-schooled or tutored. Some of them were bullied at school, but my daughter rarely if ever told any of her friends where she had been.