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Apr122012
Documentary 'Girl Model' reveals underbelly of modelling world
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 01:33PM 
Girl Model focuses on Russian girls in Japan, but the issues raised in the documentary are industry-wide, says Blais. When she was 18, she lived in New York City, trying to survive on $120 a week and forced to borrow rent money from her agency.
The issue made headlines in February, when models in the U.S. launched the Model Alliance, a non-profit rights group that seeks workplace standards to address some of the issues raised in the film, including child labour laws.
“Because the modelling industry is crossing so many different borders, and all the laws are different, there’s not a unified force that’s regulating (the industry),” Sabin told the Star. “They’re self-regulating and that’s extremely problematic when you’re dealing with youth.”
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