As editor and chief of Bella Petite, I have booked more editorials featuring petite models (5’7″ & under). Than any other individual in the world! I have been a working 5’2″ petite model since I was a teenager. I am proud to be the publisher of the ‘only’ global magazine exclusively created for petite women.
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Bella Petite Magazine is established with the goal of becoming the fashion bible for petite women. You can trust we will provide valuable advice.
I am asked every day by petite models for career advice, so I’ve decided to share some of my own personal notes.
It is important for aspiring petite models to identify their strong points as a model.
For instance: What is your look? You must identify and capture it on film.
Know what type of work can you pursue. Keep in mind there are costs to becoming a model. Like all industries it is not free there are associated costs, and training required.
You will need to develop your book, create and print your composite cards, purchase a resource directory for comp card mailings, pay postage fees and utilize the internet for job castings, networking, photo tools, and research.
Plus, you will need to have a model profile and an email address.
However, Bella Petite Magazine is a new style publication that offers an international model search submission process. Bella Petite clearly has a different philosophy than the old standards!
You will need to market yourself by entering events, such as IMTA, pageants, or model searches, and network just like any other business. It requires an investment to become a professional model, and it requires more than just taking a pretty picture and posting it up on Facebook.
Free model searches typically offer nothing in reality; no tearsheets (like the one shown above), prizes, promotional benefits, or modeling work. Often the others focus less on providing opportunities for the models. They only want to drive website traffic for the brand. The petite model gets little more than an ego boost.
Modeling agencies no longer pay money to develop models and that was never an option for petite models. Also, fashion magazines don’t take new faces, spend money developing talent, or place petite models in high fashion editorials…
Petite models now for the first time you have an opportunity to do high fashion, editorial print, runway modeling, and promotional opportunities with Bella Petite Magazine!
Bella Petite, our magazine, model search, and petite model network is the number one source for petite models, talent, and businesswomen.
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I am very big support of bella and your fan thank you for taking time and answer my question. I luv to read your magazine!
Thank for you for your very helpful advice very nice that you are doing this 🙂
Good news to read this just in time for me I have so many questions about modeling and how to do it as a petite I want to know what I can do and where to start thank you!
Very thoughtful of you to take time to talk about modeling for petite girls I have not been able to find much about this until bellapetite it is nice thank you 🙂
I do not know what to do to be model this is help me to know what to do I want to try and do it! Bella petite is my dream to model with you because your magazine is for us shorties 🙂