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BROOKLYN DECKER
The first time I worked with Sports Illustrated, I was 18. It was like after I graduated high school and that was three and a half years ago. So, I just finished shooting my fourth year for them or my fourth issue. It comes out in February. Marissa Miller always goes, all veterans. You know, and I’m like a veteran at 21. It's kind of scary.
I grew up in a small town outside Charlotte called Mathews where the baseball diamonds are literally within walking distance from my house.
And I grew up with four dogs and a picket fence and a yellow house, no lie. The picket fence is actually wooden. It was a wooden picket fence. They were going to paint it white, but they thought it would be too cliché. So, they left it wooden, we have a yellow house. It has a little balcony. I mean, it's very southern and cute.
But no, I just--yeah, on the weekends I really, really chill out and it's really nice. If I can, I get out of the city and, you know, go home or, you know, just kind of escape the loudness that is New York.
This girl who was also a model--or I wasn't a model at that time--who is a model recognized me and she thought I was modeling, so she came up to me and she was saying, “Oh, are you a model, blah, blah, blah, this local agency. It turns out we just cheered at opposing high schools and that's where she recognized me from.
But the conversation eventually led me to starting modeling locally. When I was 16, I signed with my agency here in New York and then when I graduated high school I decided to move here, and that was three years ago. And to be honest, if I had a daughter one day and she came to me and said she wanted to do the same thing, I can't say I would allow it.
Any other business, you work hard, you put in the time and you're talented, you do well. And that's not necessarily the case in our business. You know, in our business it's chance, it's luck, it's “Are you hot right that second?” you know. So, it's a bit more unpredictable and less reliable than a typical job. I've been incredibly lucky and I wouldn’t change my experience for the world.
