“Modeling agencies reinvented my identity, training me how to walk, speak and act. New education, new clothes, new ‘family.’ I had a ‘mother agent.’ I was ‘their girl.’ I lived with them in their homes. Even after I paid off my agency debt — which to be clear many models never do — they held onto my money and I had to request my weekly ‘allowance.’ It is only with the gift of hindsight that I came to understand the ways the familiar language they used was infantilizing and highly conditional — a powerful incentive to demand loyalty, which they used to manipulate and coerce me into unfair working conditions.” Read my op-Ed in today’s @nydailynews, and join our fight to pass the Fashion Workers Act. It’s time for management companies to accept accountability and fiduciary responsibility for their talent. Photo: @jakavinsek