A former model, who was signed by NEXT Management, has claimed that her agent once encouraged her to “swallow” cotton balls.
The former fashion model, Esmeralda Seay-Reynolds, reflected on signing with the modelling agency while she was a teenager during a recent interview with Variety. She claimed that at the age of 16, she received some unsafe advice from her agent about what to do in order to stay thin.
“I remember my agent saying, ‘Cotton balls are organic, so it’s fine if you just swallow them to make yourself feel full,’” she said.
When Variety asked Joel Wilkenfeld, co-founder of NEXT Management, about the cotton ball incident, he said: “If a model would have brought that to our attention, that agent would have been fired right there on the spot.”
During her conversation with Variety, the former runway model recalled another experience that she had when signed with NEXT management. Seay-Reynolds claimed that her agents signed her up for a 2014 photoshoot in Reykjavík, where she had to pose in the freezing cold.
“We pull up to a glacier above freezing, ice-covered waters. And [the photographer] parks the car, and he’s like, ‘Climb!’” she recalled.
She also added that she and another model spent 30 minutes walking around those glaciers in slip dresses and heels, while the photographer and his assistant allegedly wore parkas. Seay-Reynolds went on to claim that when she tried to tell the photographer that she couldn’t change her clothes on this glacier, he shut her...
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