Hey everybody! It's been a while since I post here, A couple days ago I read an open letter a girl wrote to Kendall Jenner I'll link that HERE
So I've been giving this letter a lot of thought, before going in with this interview It's appropiate to mention that I come from an average middle class Mexican family, so there's not a real personal motive for me to be more on Kendalls side on this one
The open letter begins saying:
"Take a moment and remove yourself from your current situation, if you can, to a life that isn’t riddled with excess and only hearing the word “yes” to your wants and requests."
Well now somebody is telling us what to do with our lifes based on an vague idea of what these are like, that's cool
These model writing the letter then goes on and rants about being from a Third world country and mentions that the only way to get a better life is by being a "High fashion model", moving at the age of 17 and living in precarious conditions while your agency's account is built up in debt.
In a very passive agressive way she says, "Take this into perspective, Miss Jenner"
Moving along she takes you to a mental place where you already lived trough all of this, and you get your big break in Fashion Week with Marc Jacobs, she mentions the fear of your outfit being cut from the show and the struggle that is going trough fitting (poor you being responsible with your job, such a sad situation) and to being the ending of this letter she says:
"But wait, isn’t that a reality TV star over there in hair and makeup? Yea, that’s definitely a Kardashian or something. What is she doing here? Did she take the subway? Was she at the casting? What agency is she with? I didn’t see her last season … Does she need MORE fame? MORE money? A green card perhaps? Doesn’t she get enough cash from that show that all of ignorant America glamorizes? Didn’t her sister have sex with someone on camera and profit from the video sales to get their family its new line of limelight? This girl didn’t do and doesn’t owe half of what you did (remember, you’re NOT “KJ” in this scenario) to get here today, that much is certain. Her mommy surely called a top agency, got her in the door and the design houses just chose to milk her fame like the cash cow that it is. One by one like dominos from Vogue to Givenchy, fashion is selling out to the ignorant masses for money. What happened to the art, the cerebral part of fashion? Did it really all die with Alexander McQueen?"
Although all of this plays with our heart strings, reading carefully trough it and analyzing her words she is first bashing, someone who is giving her the opportunity of her life, a once in a lifetime opportunity for that matter, then she goes ahead and calls every viewer "ignorant", Now all of the mentioned above can be viewed from different perspectives and different ideas, to me it's pointless to rant about this, you have once chance to show who you are on the runway, why stress yourself out with something you can't control
But this is surely not what I want to talk about in this post. I believe NOBODY should apologize for the life they were born in, telling Kendall Jenner she can't model because she is a Reality TV Star is like telling that Third World Country woman she can't because of her ethnical, social or economical background, I didn't choose to have the life I have, It just happened to be that way, and this model wouldn't be complaining if it was her who had Kendall's spot, we are born in different situations, we all have our own stories and our own past, the point of modeling is being able to leave all of this behind and transporting yourself to wherever the designer needs you to be, regardless of whomever is in that runway with you.
As a conclusion to this, why shouldn't someone be allowed to live his or her life? Be thankful for the opportunities YOU have, instead of promoting hatred towards someone because of the opportunities this individual has had, as C.S. Lewis once said "Hardship often prepares ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny" Take this into account the next time you bash someone for having a certain type of lifestyle that's probably easier than you own.
Don't get bitter, just get better.
