{"id":4830,"date":"2022-03-09T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiEDh-paLbYEMZicGpe404iksqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAzCWrzwwt4QY"},"modified":"2022-03-09T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T20:03:09","slug":"model-guinevere-van-seenus-becomes-a-photographer-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=4830","title":{"rendered":"Model Guinevere van Seenus Becomes A Photographer &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/03\/10\/fashion\/00GUINEVERE-1\/00GUINEVERE-1-facebookJumbo.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">Her world outside of the industry was diminishing. She said: \u201cI never wanted to say no to work. I was really lucky. Every time Paolo Roversi or Craig McDean or Steven Meisel would call, it would be a yes for sure. And then, runway shows take up a good portion of the year, and pretty soon you\u2019re working Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Thanksgiving, not seeing your family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">She paused. \u201cYeah, I didn\u2019t pace myself very well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">Ms. van Seenus began experiencing crippling anxiety and depression. It got so bad that she couldn\u2019t get out of bed. \u201cIt stopped my life entirely,\u201d she said. She needed an out. In 1997, she decided to leave modeling and moved to Woodstock, N.Y., before ending up in Los Angeles in 2001, where she enrolled in Santa Monica College to study art.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-ow6j0y eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-5ceeff13\">A Reclamation <\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">At the dining table, Ms. van Seenus shared her personal collection of the test Polaroids taken of her throughout her career. There\u2019s one by David Sims, another by David LaChapelle. Mr. Friedlander affectionately referred to these younger versions of Ms. van Seenus as \u201cBaby G.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">Ms. van Seenus entered the industry as a teenager. Soon, her body began to change. No matter how much she worked out, how skinny she could whittle down her frame, her hips were still considered big, her breasts full. In one early test Polaroid, Ms. van Seenus wears a bikini. Her ribs are strikingly visible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">\u201cI remember, they couldn\u2019t run it,\u201d she said. She noted that the endless commentary the industry made about your body \u2014 this part of you is too big, that part of you is too small \u2014 could be exhausting in its contradictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\">\u201cAll of sudden, you feel like you have no protective barrier in the world,\u201d Ms. van Seenus said. \u201cYou\u2019re supposed to be available to people. You want to protect yourself and it starts to be this battle.\u201d<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\"> <\/span>An imperfect vegan \u2014 \u201cI do my best,\u201d she said \u2014 Ms. van Seenus has also refused to model fur, which was once perceived as a limitation.<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her world outside of the industry was diminishing. She said: \u201cI never wanted to say no to work. I was really lucky. Every time Paolo Roversi or Craig McDean or Steven Meisel would call, it would be a yes for sure. And then, runway shows take up a good portion of the year, and pretty soon you\u2019re working Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Thanksgiving, not seeing your family.\u201d She paused. \u201cYeah, I didn\u2019t pace myself very well.\u201d Ms. van Seenus began experiencing crippling anxiety and depression. It got so bad that she couldn\u2019t get out of bed. \u201cIt stopped my life&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-cbd-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}