Eden

Agencies

Mother Agency (MA): WILD MGMT

Toronto/Montreal: Montage Models

Answers to Q&A

Why did you want to become a model?

I never had interest in modelling until I joined a media arts course. We were asked to do self portraits and the class taught me how a photo is much more than just a photo, it’s a story captured with personality and layers behind it. After that, it felt like taking photos was an escape into playing the role of anything you want to be. I grew up as an extremely self conscious person with social anxiety that would make simple daily interactions feel like the end of the world. But with modelling, I got to play whoever I wanted because I wasn’t there to be judged by other people, I was there to create a moment with the camera. This ultimately led me to doing content creation as a job but the modelling helped me get comfortable in front of the lens in the first place.

What makes you special?

In a culture that’s led us down a path of constant comparison and competition, I think the secret to being special  is striving to  perceive yourself as nothing more or less than anyone else. If I went into anything trying to be the best at it out there, I would be facing a lifelong pattern of ungratefulness and disappointment. We all have our own differences and quirks, it’s about finding out what your advantages are without being envious of others. I can’t tell you how many times my young self longed for a whole different body type, different face, different me. The best challenge was going into a career that would pick me apart and coming out not only refusing to change myself for it, but appreciating my differences and everything that makes me who I am more than ever before. 

What are you passionate about?

There is nothing I am more passionate about than living life as vividly and fulfilled as possible. It is why I have always been enamoured by the arts-filming, writing, acting-anything that captures human emotion and our collective experience. Being an introverted person means living life to its fullest in a different way than others might assume. I try to enjoy every little bit of peace and understanding the world has to offer because I view those little moments, the minor choices we make to be better, be grateful, and not take this fleeting time for granted every single day as the most important parts of our lives. 

What’s a story your family likes to tell about you?

The time my parents asked “what do you want to be when you grow up?” My six-year-old self, dressed in a bubblegum pink ballerina tutu and polka dot gumboots said “I wanna be a garbage man that smokes”. I guess we had a garbage man who happened to be a chain smoker and I thought he had it going on. To be fair, I’ve always thought dreams kept unlived weren’t worth having at all and a curse on someone’s conscience. Maybe his job seemed free and attainable enough to not be left in the back of one’s mind, as if a better life is a far away star to wish upon. Nevertheless, I’m glad to tell you, I never took up smoking and my career path has actually been *more* exciting than collecting community waste? Score!

What are you super interested in that most people have never heard of?

I’m one of those people that obsesses over films (“films” is what us movie obsessed people call movies for some reason) to a borderline annoying degree. My mom tells me when I was little you could ask me about a movie and I’d relay every scene in detail from start to finish. I remember my little brain focussed so much during Disney's Monsters, Inc. I could close my eyes at night and watch it in my head all over again like there was a TV in there. It was awesome. Still is.