How To Cope With A Difficult Model

How do you cope with a difficult model?

If you are in love with your job and you like doing your job, you accept that coping with difficult people is part and parcel of it. You have to have an empathy as to why they're being difficult. Is it being difficult? Is it being sensitive? Nobody behaves badly for the sheer hell of it and if you have been part of the creative process of making that model known, of guiding the career in the right way, you have that pride. It's a bit like having a child: "I've helped create this, therefore it's in my interests to keep her happy." As a model booker, we have to accept we're dealing with individuals, with youngsters that have not really developed in a natural way, and you have been part of giving them that unnatural environment to deal with. You are emotionally obliged to help her through it and if that means you're going to have the odd tantrum or the odd four o'clock in the morning phone call, if you're enjoying what your doing and taking it seriously it actually doesn't bother you at all.