Modeling agencies in Miami??

[THE MINKSTER]

Um.. I wanted to know if there are any modeling agencies in Miami that anyone would recommend? I'm about to turn 16, I'm about 5'3 and I weigh maybe like 95 pounds. Usually agencies want you to pay hundreds of dollars and want girls that are 5'7 and up. I need to find someone that would take someone like me, any suggestions?????

[Sur La Mer]

The best way to deal with modeling agencies is by contacting your area that is local and have a good record through the Better Business Bureau, not online. I went to a poise & charm school, back in the 70's, and wasted my money because they didn't promise they'll give me a job, but I learned something from it. I learned how to be poise, presentable, and walk like a model, and that is not something you won't ever forget, to look like a model.
There are many predators out there, that attract many people of all sexes, ages, and demographic.

Sending out photos or videos of wannabes, is like sending your profiles to people in jail, you don't know them, AND YOU just can't trust everyone, this is the world wide web, that can attract the whole world: your address and everything about YOU.

Craigslist now Facebook too, is a good reputable website, but they get a bad rap because of what ONE PERSON did or done. Same scenario.

SOMEONE ON YA SENT A NAKED PHOTO, NOW SHE REGRETS IT:
"I sent a naked photo a month ago.?
This person pressured me into sending them a nude photo. My face is a profile as I don't really look like me I mean my hair is up with no makeup. Or my eyes are closed and u can't see like all that much but it shows some hair down there. I was wondering if the person hasn't sent it out by now.. Would they? I'm only 16 and they were older it was for a modeling gig. I just regret it and I want to get over it please help!"

In Vogue UK, now hires 13-14 year old models. But there's a documentary "Girl Model" too young, too thin on Vogue models, shown at SXSW and the Toronto International Film festival, highlights the search and scouting of young girls in the modeling industry. Teen models have no clue what they're getting themselves into. They're naive. They get free food, free alcohol, they are forced into prostitution, too many abuses, sexual, physical, emotional you just can't believe.
http://theminaretonline.com/2012/04/06/article21987
Watch "Girl Model" https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/yqg8b
If you're a model, and are shipped to Japan, would you be able to understand Japanese, to sign the contract? One model in Japan, gained 2", was sent home. "the modeling business is corrupt.'
They also took a bunch of her photos, and she never got paid, nor did she ever saw them! She had to borrow money to support herself, pay rent, food, to survive!
Google: Models are eating tissues to stay thin - ex-Vogue Editor - a good read. http://www.ibtimes.com/former-vogue-edit...ok-1165223
Read what one model says about his hair: "I work as a model and went through a period of work where my hair was constantly straightened for photoshoots and shows; after about two or three weeks of having my hair straightened almost every day my hair has evidently become so damaged that it's stopped curling about two inches from my scalp. The roots of my hair still curl, everything below that hangs limp and straight and dead. I've never heard of this happening to anyone else, nor has anyone else I've spoken to including numerous hair dressers."