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Content warning: This article mentions sexual assault and sexual harassment, which may be disturbing for some readers. The thrill of being cast, walking down a runway for Alexander McQueen or Mason Margiela and seeing your face on billboards or commercials is the dream for most fulltime models. However, as romanticized as this lifestyle is, there are darker issues hidden behind this glory. Among these issues are sexual harassment and sexual assault attempts, which are rampant in the modeling industry. Younger aspiring models are more susceptible to these attempts and the harm that follows since they hold little power against the big names and agencies of the industry. Studies from The Armstrong Law Firm show that 30% of women working in the modeling industry have experienced sexual harassment at some point in time. “They’d send me out for test shoots to men’s apartments on my own, and it was really unsafe. One time, the man was really weird and kept trying to make me take my clothes off,” an anonymous source in compliance with Carlmont’s media policy said. In addition to sexual harassment and
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