Modeling Agency - Fort Worth,TX

The best advice I can give you is to find your daughter an agent. Don't pay for all the bogus agencies to put your daughter in a catalog "in case" she matches something someone is looking for. An agent will actively search for jobs for your daughter and they get paid when your daughter gets paid. Don't pay for hundreds or thousands of dollars of headshots (pictures). They are outdated every few months and will need to be done over and over. Find a good friend, mom on Mamasource, or someone who has some experience with agents and modeling and get them to take some great pictures. When you pay (not much) for the pictures, make sure you are buying the negatives too! You don't need very many pictures. You need a few different great shots. Different clothes, different angles, different lighting, and different backgrounds. Parks are a great place to start. Most should be close-ups of her face and hair.
This is a rough business. My daughter is an actress. She was in one pageant when she was a baby. I hated all the fakeness about it and pulled her out after that. When she was 15, she was determined to do this herself. She found herself an agent and started filming immediately. Her agent is in Waxahachie, TX and my daughter now lives in Hollywood, CA. She's been in many TV shows, movies, commercials, still modeling (catalogs and ads), and music videos. It's a dog eat dog business and she has faced lots of rejection and heartache. She is one beautiful girl in a sea of millions of them out there. She barely makes a living, because she still hasn't had her big first break on anything major yet. She's been out there plugging away for 3 long years. And that doesn't count the years she spent in Austin, TX and Dallas, TX doing the same thing. If you get into this, be prepared for your daughter to grow up fast. I'm very proud of my daughter for staying true to herself and she hasn't changed. But, many of her friends have. It's heartbreaking to watch. I guess all I'm trying to say is be smart, and go with your gut. You'll know when something doesn't feel right. Good luck! B. Walker P.

If I'm not mistaken one of my youth girls used Kim Dawson. She started a little over a year ago and had a commercial for iDog and The Game of Life. Shortly after she had a small role in the movie The Longshots with Ice Cube, and she now has a major roll on Suite Life on Deck. It took a while to get started, and she had a few modeling jobs, but once it started it went fast. Really all of that was in a year!

The two big ones in this area that I've heard good things about are the Kim Dawson agency and The Campbell agency. Both have areas for children. If you google them, you should be able to see the directions for submitting your child's photo. Then you just wait. I've been told by several strangers that my DD needs to model and I've sent her pic in a few times with no results. It's a crapshoot. Don't spend any money on headshots or anything. Any reputable agent/agency will not get paid until your DD gets paid. Good luck!!

okay I have seen reference to "DD" many times since I joined Mamasource. To this day I still do not know what it stands for...can someone please enlighten me?

Thanks!!