hey what up guys welcome back to my channel today I'm doing something very
special for you guys I'm bringing on a special guest he's an international
model and he wants to share his experiences on how he got discovered as
a model and what some of his experiences has been so far and hopefully you know
just by him sharing his story this could really inspire you guys to
get out there and pursue your dreams so without further ado I'm bringing on
Danielle so here he is hey guys what's up now first of all I just want to thank
fresh pepper for bringing me on his channel it is a great honour for me
because I have been subscribing and checking out his channel personally
because he's got some really good content now feel free to come and check
out my channel as well I talked about anything that's got to do with grooming
style Fitness and modelling life I've got some pretty cool vlogs as well now
fresh asked me to share with you guys my modeling story how I got discovered as a
male model now I've been traveling and doing modeling for over 12 years in a
lot of different countries actually right now I'm in China this is my model
apartment check it out
all right now that you've seen the model apartment know that this is a normal
lifestyle for an international male model or female we get these contracts
for two to three months or even longer sometimes and we stay in a new and
different country until the model contract is finished this is my
lifestyle but it wasn't always like this so how did it start well when I finished
school I did not know what I wanted to study yet so I went to England and I
worked there for a while until one day I got a call from my dad it wasn't a good
call it was bad news and to make a long story short my second brother just
passed away so it's a very hard time for me and in this time period my whole life
kind of changed I realized just how important relationships are if you
compared them to material things and so I decided to study psychology because I
wanted to help people but over time I got bored and so I remember there was
this modelling school near to where I lived and I remembered I saw these very
beautiful girls over there oh man girls anyway so I went over there and had a
top of the people and they said hey you just came at the right time we have a
big modeling competition and you should enter so I thought well if I could win a
few things why not so I went and I did the competition and there were a few
Scouts there there was this one guy in particular and he took me a little bit
away from the other people and he said Daniel you've got a very good look you
need to lose weight I think around ten kilos I was shocked at a time like
but he was right and he was quite adamant and so I started to work out I
started to eat healthy I lost 10 kilos and I gained some good lean muscle then
we went to see the agency I got signed and boom before I knew it I was a model
but I was not an international model yet and I had no idea about what modeling is
what castings are what nothing I was interested in psychology not really
modeling and I had no idea the opportunities that modeling can bring
with it so I remember I had my first job oh my goodness it was for South African
fashion week and ah man I was so nervous I was actually a very very shy guys to
let shy guy but I remember walking down that that first Fashion Show I was so
nervous that my my lip here started to twitch a little bit he was so weird and
then my my eye started to twitch and as soon as it was over I went into the next
outfit and it was better and then the third show was better and then it just
became very normal but then there was a scout there and they were from Taiwan
and I said Daniel you have the perfect look for Taiwan don't you want to come
over and do modelling will pay free expenses and blah blah blah blah so we
had this talk and I went back to my agency and I said hey guys look this is
big opportunity I did not even know that you can travel internationally to
international countries and do modeling so I want to go and they looked at me
and said Daniel you just started modeling your book is not good we don't
think you should go and I was a little bit confused because this was an
opportunity and I just said sorry Daniel if you want to go we're not gonna back
you we won't be your mother agency so had a long thought about this and I
thought you know I'm gonna do a few tests she took some photographers I'm
gonna build my book up I'm gonna do my best gig at all and I'm gonna go to
someone if they want to support me or not and so I told them
and they still did no one to support me and I went I went to Taiwan for three
months I remember oh man he was such a great experience I met these wonderful
people and it was a new country new culture and it was a really good success
and then I came back to South Africa I joined another agency called fast models
I'm still with them today and then I did another South African fashion week and
then there was this TV crew and they said Daniel would love to bring you on
our Channel and do a kind of one day in a models life show thing and so I did
that
was it Kenya come out with a young without that in some Olivia can you on
his bed was it where I thought if he can't since I do her in her bed in focus
it was feather or purple was it Mocambo control a nosy to load a yellow door so
meeting be Erin Daniel maurices inference piece of still mudada and said
Africa martyrs algae are diverse is we develop and precise to move to air in a
star humble home from South Auckland the bosses are October it's the whole
package hide the body he can do anything this one week in this shows you can do
magazines you can do editorial and he's very versatile so clients love booking
Daniel disease are all rhyme with kind of muddled and they also like that he
who knows how to perform as a model in front of a camera
stove and TV pay more than red but ramp is fun and a lot of exposure the right
people are sitting in the audience anything you can walk in you you can and
after that show Wow things just exploded I went to travel to
a lot of countries I did a lot of modeling jobs and it's been a really fun
and interesting time but people always only see that lamb-like you know all the
nice things but it's not always an easy job I've had a contract where I make no
money then I had contracts where I laid a lot of money and then you miss your
family a lot there's a lot of negative stuff that comes with modeling as well
even if you look at sexual harassment and all those kind of stuff so I have to
be honest with you guys it's not this perfect life it's far from it it is what
you make of it so I decided to make the most of it and it's been 12 years now
and I'm not arrogant about it that I'm a model and very humble and I'm so
thankful for this amazing experience because I've seen so many different
cultures and people and it's just been a blessing in my life and then eight
months ago I started my new YouTube channel called D LM model lifestyle
where I give people my honest advice on modeling fitness grooming and style and
I also show people the vlogs of how a model lifestyle is really like traveling
to all these different countries so feel free to come and check it out and that's
it guys that's my model story so now it is back to fresh wow that was a great
story Daniel thank you so much for sharing if you guys enjoyed this video
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industry so check us out don't forget daniel has an e-book and
i'm gonna leave the link to description box below the ebook is really digestible
content something you can read on the goal while you're on a flight or
whatever it's just something to have in nice content the donors put together for
you guys so check that out and I'll see you guys on my next video