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* ''Fanfic/LilasLament'': Deconstructed. After stealing the Earrings and Ring and impulsively making a Wish to switch lives with Adrien, Lila replaces him as Gabriel's child and becomes a rich and famous teen supermodel with access to all the gorgeous clothes and accessories she could ever want. But her new position comes with downsides, as she is restricted to eating a bland diet of vegetables and toast every day in order to stay thin for her modeling career. And now that she's a supermodel and the daughter of a famous fashion designer, she can't get away with making up grandiose {{Celebrity Lie}}s as she did previously because the tabloids spread her wild stories everywhere and the celebrities she claims to know are able to easily prove that she is a liar.
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* ''Fanfic/LilasLament'': Deconstructed. After stealing the Earrings and Ring and impulsively making a Wish to switch lives with Adrien, Lila replaces him as Gabriel's child and becomes a rich and famous teen supermodel with access to all the gorgeous clothes and accessories she could ever want. But her new position comes with downsides, as she is restricted to [[WeightLossSalad eating a bland diet of vegetables and toast every day in order to stay thin for her modeling career.career]]. And now that she's a supermodel and the daughter of a famous fashion designer, she can't get away with making up grandiose {{Celebrity Lie}}s as she did previously because the tabloids spread her wild stories everywhere and the celebrities she claims to know are able to easily prove that she is a liar.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Adrien Agreste, as the only son of a famous fashion designer, may have lived a glamorous life regardless, but his ''modeling career'' for said dad's company plasters his face all over Paris, connects him with celebrities, and gives him hordes of fans.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAdrienAgreste Adrien Agreste, Agreste]], as the only son of a famous fashion designer, may have lived a glamorous life regardless, but his ''modeling career'' for said dad's company plasters his face all over Paris, connects him with celebrities, and gives him hordes of fans.
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** "[[Recap/CSINYS02E01 Summer in the City]]": A model being questioned in the theft of the largest jewel from a diamond-studded bra tells Danny she'd been jet-setting between Paris and Milan, and that she made $10,000 just for getting out of bed that morning.
** "[[Recap/CSINYS03E06 Open and Shut]]": An extremely entitled model parading around in a string bikini during a rooftop pool-side photo shoot gets caught on film bullying a hotel concierge about her pillow not being fluffy enough, pitches a fit about not being in the mood to work and pouts off to her dressing room for a nap, and constantly bosses her personal assistant around. Before they're aware of her true personality, Adam gushes, "I *love* Mandy Foster!" and Danny chides Mac for not recognizing her because "her face is on billboards all over the city."
** "[[Recap/CSINYS03E06 Open and Shut]]": An extremely entitled model parading around in a string bikini during a rooftop pool-side photo shoot gets caught on film bullying a hotel concierge about her pillow not being fluffy enough, pitches a fit about not being in the mood to work and pouts off to her dressing room for a nap, and constantly bosses her personal assistant around. Before they're aware of her true personality, Adam gushes, "I *love* Mandy Foster!" and Danny chides Mac for not recognizing her because "her face is on billboards all over the city."
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** "[[Recap/CSINYS02E01 Summer in the City]]": A model being questioned in the theft of the largest jewel from a diamond-studded bra tells Danny she'd been jet-setting between Paris and Milan, New York, and that she made $10,000 just for getting out of bed that morning.
** "[[Recap/CSINYS03E06 Open and Shut]]": An extremely entitled model parading around in a string bikini during a rooftop pool-side photo shoot gets caught on film bullying a hotel concierge about her pillow not being fluffy enough, pitches a fit about not being in the mood to work and pouts off to her dressing room for a nap, and constantly bosses her personal assistant around. Before they're aware of her true personality, Adam gushes, "I *love* Mandy Foster!" andDanny chides Mac for not recognizing her because "her face is on billboards all over the city."excited to work a case that she's involved in.
** "[[Recap/CSINYS03E06 Open and Shut]]": An extremely entitled model parading around in a string bikini during a rooftop pool-side photo shoot gets caught on film bullying a hotel concierge about her pillow not being fluffy enough, pitches a fit about not being in the mood to work and pouts off to her dressing room for a nap, and constantly bosses her personal assistant around. Before they're aware of her true personality, Adam gushes, "I *love* Mandy Foster!" and
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* ''Series/TheQueensGambit'': Cleo's a model. Beth is envious of her clothes and she gets to jetset around the world, which is how she shows up in both Paris and New York.
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* ''Series/TheQueensGambit'': Cleo's a model. Beth is envious of her clothes and she gets to jetset jet-set around the world, which is how she shows up in both Paris and New York.
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** ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'': Ashley Crawford is a stunning swimsuit model and enjoys a glamourous lifestyle (Deadpool is a ''huge'' fan), but her superheroine alter ego is superstrong but very obese. In order to return to her voluptuous swimsuit model figure, she has to puke up the excess mass, a nod to pervasive eating disorders in the modeling industry.
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** ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'': Ashley Crawford is a stunning swimsuit model and enjoys a glamourous lifestyle (Deadpool is a ''huge'' fan), but her superheroine alter ego is superstrong super strong but very obese. In order to return to her voluptuous swimsuit model figure, she has to puke up the excess mass, a nod to pervasive eating disorders in the modeling industry.
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Zigzaggd and eventually subverted. Ann works as a part-time model, skating along on her natural good looks and high metabolism to let her put minimum effort into dieting, exercise, or maintaining her appearance, making things look quite glamorous. However, as her Confidant route progresses, it's shown just how competitive and cutthroat the Japanese modeling industry really is.
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Zigzaggd Zigzagged and eventually subverted. Ann works as a part-time model, skating along on her natural good looks and high metabolism to let her put minimum effort into dieting, exercise, or maintaining her appearance, making things look quite glamorous. However, as her Confidant route progresses, it's shown just how competitive and cutthroat the Japanese modeling industry really is.
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Zigzaggd and eventually subverted. Anne Ann works as a part-time model, skating along on her natural good looks and high metabolism to let her put minimum effort into dieting, exercise, or maintaining her appearance, making things look quite glamorous. However, as her Confidant route progresses, it's shown just how competitive and cutthroat the Japanese modeling industry really is.
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Zigzaggd and eventually subverted. Anne works as a part-time model, skating along on her natural good looks and high metabolism to let her put minimum effort into dieting, exercise, or maintaining her appearance, making things look quite glamorous. However, as her Confidant route progresses, it's shown just how competitive and cutthroat the Japanese modeling industry really is.
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* ''Fanfic/LilasLament'': Deconstructed. After stealing the Earrings and Ring and impulsively making a Wish to switch lives with Adrien, Lila replaces him as Gabriel's child and becomes a rich and famous teen supermodel with access to all the gorgeous clothes and accessories she could ever want. But her new position comes with downsides, as she is restricted to eating a bland diet of vegetables and toast every day in order to stay thin for her modeling career. And now that she's a supermodel and the daughter of a famous fashion designer, she can't get away with making up grandiose [[CelebrityLie Celebrity Lies]] like she did previously, because the tabloids spread her wild stories everywhere and the celebrities she claims to know are able to easily prove that she is a liar.
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* ''Fanfic/LilasLament'': Deconstructed. After stealing the Earrings and Ring and impulsively making a Wish to switch lives with Adrien, Lila replaces him as Gabriel's child and becomes a rich and famous teen supermodel with access to all the gorgeous clothes and accessories she could ever want. But her new position comes with downsides, as she is restricted to eating a bland diet of vegetables and toast every day in order to stay thin for her modeling career. And now that she's a supermodel and the daughter of a famous fashion designer, she can't get away with making up grandiose [[CelebrityLie Celebrity Lies]] like {{Celebrity Lie}}s as she did previously, previously because the tabloids spread her wild stories everywhere and the celebrities she claims to know are able to easily prove that she is a liar.
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* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Gabrielle Solis was a former New York City supermodel who hung with the likes of Heidi Klum. It was through this career that she met and married her wealthy husband Carlos. This high-flying past life in NYC is contrasted with her [[RagsToRiches poor upbringing]] and the current travails of upperclass suburbia.
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* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Gabrielle Solis was a former New York City supermodel who hung with the likes of Heidi Klum. It was through this career that she met and married her wealthy husband Carlos. This high-flying past life in NYC is contrasted with her [[RagsToRiches poor upbringing]] and the current travails of upperclass upper-class suburbia.
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* ''Series/TedLasso'': After [[spoiler:getting hired to coach West Ham]] Nate is set up on a date with Anastasia, a bombshell supermodel, at an exclusive club. Nate takes her to his favorite Greek hole-in-the-wall, but she (overdressed and overglammed) thinks it's dumpy and ditches him to hang out with similarly posh-looking people.
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* ''Series/TedLasso'': After [[spoiler:getting hired to coach West Ham]] Ham]], Nate is set up on a date with Anastasia, a bombshell supermodel, at an exclusive club. Nate takes her to his favorite Greek hole-in-the-wall, but she (overdressed and overglammed) thinks it's dumpy and ditches him to hang out with similarly posh-looking people.
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When people think of modeling, they think of looking beautiful at all times, walking in high-profile fashion shows, wearing glittering designer clothes and shoes at {{Fashion Show}}s, traveling all over the world, and rubbing elbows with designers, celebrities and high-powered industry figures. In short, it is seen as an extremely ritzy profession populated by TheBeautifulElite, and fiction likes to treat it as such: if a character is mentioned to be a ''model'', it is immediately implied that [[InformedAttractiveness they are good-looking]] and enjoy some fun perks as the result of their job: money, beautiful clothes, adoring fans, their faces plastered on billboards, free travel, you name it. Historically, it was an 'acceptable' job for women, and since writers love hot girls, the sexy and worldly model character will also likely be female.
Real modeling, like all entertainment industry jobs, runs the gamut of fame and success. Even fashion[[note]]the types who pose for high-fashion magazines[[/note]] and runway[[note]]the types who walk down catwalks to show off designer clothing[[/note]] modeling, the types most closely associated with the fictional portrayal, still require long hours, relatively low pay unless you're a ''super''model, and uncomfortable modeling conditions on top of the psychological pressure of needing to look your best at all times.
Tropes like RuleOfGlamorous, CostumePorn, and UnlimitedWardrobe are likely in play for fictional models' outfits. They might also be TheFashionista and PlasticBitch; if they're 'mean girls' who enjoy the luxuriousness of the job, see TheDiva, ThePrimaDonna, and VanityIsFeminine. If characters want to date models for the presumed glamour, it overlaps with InherentlyAttractiveProfession.
Contrast tropes that portray the 'dark side' of the beauty/fashion industry, such as SleazyPhotoshoot and ModelScam.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Resident {{Narcissist}} Mimimi has aspirations of becoming a fashion model someday. When Rentarou uses her as a LapPillow in Chapter 56, his dream has her winning a Paris Fashion contest and inviting Rentarou onto the runway with her. When Rentarou and the gang set up merchandise stands on the roof in Chapter 87, she serves as a mannequin displaying one of the stand's outfits.
* ''Manga/KeepYourHandsOffEizouken'': Misuzaki is a famous teen model. Not only is she well-known at school, to the point where her involvement in the Robot Club's anime is used as its key selling point during the Culture Festival, but when the girls take a trip to Asakusa's place, the train car they're in has ads with Mizusaki in them plastered everywhere and two fans ask to shake hands with her. However, she'd much rather be an animator than a model, expressing irritation at Kanamori's persistent use of her fame as a model as a selling point for the Motion Picture Club's material, and [[https://randomc.net/image/Eizouken%20ni%20wa%20Te%20wo%20Dasu%20na!/Eizouken%20ni%20wa%20Te%20wo%20Dasu%20na!%20-%2010%20-%20Large%2013.jpg looks]] like a StepfordSmiler when she's actually seen modelling in Episode 10.
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Uwabami is a beautiful [[SnakesAreSexy snake-themed superheroine]] who models as a day job, and fittingly wears a slinky dress everywhere. Yaoyorozu and Kendo intern with her only to find that her schedule is mainly comprised of photoshoots, interviews, and commercials.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Franchise/MarvelUniverse:
** ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'': Ashley Crawford is a stunning swimsuit model and enjoys a glamourous lifestyle (Deadpool is a ''huge'' fan), but her superheroine alter ego is superstrong but very obese. In order to return to her voluptuous swimsuit model figure, she has to puke up the excess mass, a nod to pervasive eating disorders in the modeling industry.
** ''ComicBook/MillieTheModel'': Millie's romantic and professional misadventures are set against the backdrop of her fun modeling career, where she meets a lot of attractive people and gets to wear a lot of beautiful clothes.
* ''ComicBook/{{Vixen}}'': The heroine, Mari [=McCabe=], is a supermodel in her day job. She has a lot of money, travels a lot, and enjoys a lot of luxuries as a result, on top of the additional public adoration from being a superhero.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/LilasLament'': Deconstructed. After stealing the Earrings and Ring and impulsively making a Wish to switch lives with Adrien, Lila replaces him as Gabriel's child and becomes a rich and famous teen supermodel with access to all the gorgeous clothes and accessories she could ever want. But her new position comes with downsides, as she is restricted to eating a bland diet of vegetables and toast every day in order to stay thin for her modeling career. And now that she's a supermodel and the daughter of a famous fashion designer, she can't get away with making up grandiose [[CelebrityLie Celebrity Lies]] like she did previously, because the tabloids spread her wild stories everywhere and the celebrities she claims to know are able to easily prove that she is a liar.
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[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
* ''Film/{{Darling}}'' is about Diana Scott, a beauteous model from Swinging Sixties London, who gets into multiple romantic entanglements, attends high-profile charity galas, and flies around the world for various jobs. However, her personal unfulfillment, amorality, and disillusionment with the jet set are running themes, and the film ends with her [[spoiler:stuck in a marriage to an Italian prince]].
* ''Film/TriangleOfSadness'': PlayedWith. Main characters Carl and Yaya are model-influencers, and Yaya specifically is introduced as a popular and famous runway walker. They dine at fancy restaurants and get invited on a luxury cruise -- though they're both anxious about money since they're aware that their good looks won't pay the bills forever.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The hook of ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'' was seeing aspiring models partake in challenges that ''ostensibly'' had to do with the industry (such as difficult runway walks or acting) and watching them participate in glamorous photoshoots at the end of every episode.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Twice.
** "[[Recap/CSINYS02E01 Summer in the City]]": A model being questioned in the theft of the largest jewel from a diamond-studded bra tells Danny she'd been jet-setting between Paris and Milan, and that she made $10,000 just for getting out of bed that morning.
** "[[Recap/CSINYS03E06 Open and Shut]]": An extremely entitled model parading around in a string bikini during a rooftop pool-side photo shoot gets caught on film bullying a hotel concierge about her pillow not being fluffy enough, pitches a fit about not being in the mood to work and pouts off to her dressing room for a nap, and constantly bosses her personal assistant around. Before they're aware of her true personality, Adam gushes, "I *love* Mandy Foster!" and Danny chides Mac for not recognizing her because "her face is on billboards all over the city."
* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Gabrielle Solis was a former New York City supermodel who hung with the likes of Heidi Klum. It was through this career that she met and married her wealthy husband Carlos. This high-flying past life in NYC is contrasted with her [[RagsToRiches poor upbringing]] and the current travails of upperclass suburbia.
* ''Series/TheQueensGambit'': Cleo's a model. Beth is envious of her clothes and she gets to jetset around the world, which is how she shows up in both Paris and New York.
* ''Series/TedLasso'': After [[spoiler:getting hired to coach West Ham]] Nate is set up on a date with Anastasia, a bombshell supermodel, at an exclusive club. Nate takes her to his favorite Greek hole-in-the-wall, but she (overdressed and overglammed) thinks it's dumpy and ditches him to hang out with similarly posh-looking people.
* ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'': Lady Penelope is a world-renowned supermodel on top of being an aristocrat and secret agent. All of these descriptors result in a very chic and beautiful woman who drives a distinct Rolls-Royce, travels around the world to attend shows and galas, is frequently photographed, and wears designer exclusives.
* ''Series/UglyBetty'': Wilhelmina Slater was a rich girl turned supermodel, who was able to parlay her successful career into a high-powered fashion magazine executive. Her taste for the finer things in life has remained constant throughout, as has her imperious personality.
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[[folder:Music]]
* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the video for "Music/BestFriend" by Music/FosterThePeople. While the supermodel protagonist of the video does get to bask in the adoration of onlookers, wear fancy clothes, and get into hot nightclubs, it all comes at a great cost. Not only does modeling feed her insecurities, but the actions she takes to stay on top make her both metaphorically and literally a monster. And several women die when she [[SwallowedWhole ravenously devours]] them alive in order to steal their beauty.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'': Tulip, the Alfornada Gym Leader, is a model and makeup artist. She is a hyperfeminine and elegant woman who is mentioned to have a ''very'' busy schedule.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Parodied with the ''[[https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2023/04/12/whats-balenciaga-to-do-about-the-harry-potter-meme/?sh=789962e780ab Balenciaga Harry Potter]]'' Meme and derivations: every video has the characters' faces (or an approximation thereof) plastered on models' bodies and wearing the fashion brand's extravagant outfits. Some videos actually have the character say some lines of dialogue from the books/series/whatever their origin, altered to fit the Balenciaga image.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Adrien Agreste, as the only son of a famous fashion designer, may have lived a glamorous life regardless, but his ''modeling career'' for said dad's company plasters his face all over Paris, connects him with celebrities, and gives him hordes of fans.
[[/folder]]
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Real modeling, like all entertainment industry jobs, runs the gamut of fame and success. Even fashion[[note]]the types who pose for high-fashion magazines[[/note]] and runway[[note]]the types who walk down catwalks to show off designer clothing[[/note]] modeling, the types most closely associated with the fictional portrayal, still require long hours, relatively low pay unless you're a ''super''model, and uncomfortable modeling conditions on top of the psychological pressure of needing to look your best at all times.
Tropes like RuleOfGlamorous, CostumePorn, and UnlimitedWardrobe are likely in play for fictional models' outfits. They might also be TheFashionista and PlasticBitch; if they're 'mean girls' who enjoy the luxuriousness of the job, see TheDiva, ThePrimaDonna, and VanityIsFeminine. If characters want to date models for the presumed glamour, it overlaps with InherentlyAttractiveProfession.
Contrast tropes that portray the 'dark side' of the beauty/fashion industry, such as SleazyPhotoshoot and ModelScam.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Resident {{Narcissist}} Mimimi has aspirations of becoming a fashion model someday. When Rentarou uses her as a LapPillow in Chapter 56, his dream has her winning a Paris Fashion contest and inviting Rentarou onto the runway with her. When Rentarou and the gang set up merchandise stands on the roof in Chapter 87, she serves as a mannequin displaying one of the stand's outfits.
* ''Manga/KeepYourHandsOffEizouken'': Misuzaki is a famous teen model. Not only is she well-known at school, to the point where her involvement in the Robot Club's anime is used as its key selling point during the Culture Festival, but when the girls take a trip to Asakusa's place, the train car they're in has ads with Mizusaki in them plastered everywhere and two fans ask to shake hands with her. However, she'd much rather be an animator than a model, expressing irritation at Kanamori's persistent use of her fame as a model as a selling point for the Motion Picture Club's material, and [[https://randomc.net/image/Eizouken%20ni%20wa%20Te%20wo%20Dasu%20na!/Eizouken%20ni%20wa%20Te%20wo%20Dasu%20na!%20-%2010%20-%20Large%2013.jpg looks]] like a StepfordSmiler when she's actually seen modelling in Episode 10.
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Uwabami is a beautiful [[SnakesAreSexy snake-themed superheroine]] who models as a day job, and fittingly wears a slinky dress everywhere. Yaoyorozu and Kendo intern with her only to find that her schedule is mainly comprised of photoshoots, interviews, and commercials.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Franchise/MarvelUniverse:
** ''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'': Ashley Crawford is a stunning swimsuit model and enjoys a glamourous lifestyle (Deadpool is a ''huge'' fan), but her superheroine alter ego is superstrong but very obese. In order to return to her voluptuous swimsuit model figure, she has to puke up the excess mass, a nod to pervasive eating disorders in the modeling industry.
** ''ComicBook/MillieTheModel'': Millie's romantic and professional misadventures are set against the backdrop of her fun modeling career, where she meets a lot of attractive people and gets to wear a lot of beautiful clothes.
* ''ComicBook/{{Vixen}}'': The heroine, Mari [=McCabe=], is a supermodel in her day job. She has a lot of money, travels a lot, and enjoys a lot of luxuries as a result, on top of the additional public adoration from being a superhero.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/LilasLament'': Deconstructed. After stealing the Earrings and Ring and impulsively making a Wish to switch lives with Adrien, Lila replaces him as Gabriel's child and becomes a rich and famous teen supermodel with access to all the gorgeous clothes and accessories she could ever want. But her new position comes with downsides, as she is restricted to eating a bland diet of vegetables and toast every day in order to stay thin for her modeling career. And now that she's a supermodel and the daughter of a famous fashion designer, she can't get away with making up grandiose [[CelebrityLie Celebrity Lies]] like she did previously, because the tabloids spread her wild stories everywhere and the celebrities she claims to know are able to easily prove that she is a liar.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
* ''Film/{{Darling}}'' is about Diana Scott, a beauteous model from Swinging Sixties London, who gets into multiple romantic entanglements, attends high-profile charity galas, and flies around the world for various jobs. However, her personal unfulfillment, amorality, and disillusionment with the jet set are running themes, and the film ends with her [[spoiler:stuck in a marriage to an Italian prince]].
* ''Film/TriangleOfSadness'': PlayedWith. Main characters Carl and Yaya are model-influencers, and Yaya specifically is introduced as a popular and famous runway walker. They dine at fancy restaurants and get invited on a luxury cruise -- though they're both anxious about money since they're aware that their good looks won't pay the bills forever.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The hook of ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'' was seeing aspiring models partake in challenges that ''ostensibly'' had to do with the industry (such as difficult runway walks or acting) and watching them participate in glamorous photoshoots at the end of every episode.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Twice.
** "[[Recap/CSINYS02E01 Summer in the City]]": A model being questioned in the theft of the largest jewel from a diamond-studded bra tells Danny she'd been jet-setting between Paris and Milan, and that she made $10,000 just for getting out of bed that morning.
** "[[Recap/CSINYS03E06 Open and Shut]]": An extremely entitled model parading around in a string bikini during a rooftop pool-side photo shoot gets caught on film bullying a hotel concierge about her pillow not being fluffy enough, pitches a fit about not being in the mood to work and pouts off to her dressing room for a nap, and constantly bosses her personal assistant around. Before they're aware of her true personality, Adam gushes, "I *love* Mandy Foster!" and Danny chides Mac for not recognizing her because "her face is on billboards all over the city."
* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Gabrielle Solis was a former New York City supermodel who hung with the likes of Heidi Klum. It was through this career that she met and married her wealthy husband Carlos. This high-flying past life in NYC is contrasted with her [[RagsToRiches poor upbringing]] and the current travails of upperclass suburbia.
* ''Series/TheQueensGambit'': Cleo's a model. Beth is envious of her clothes and she gets to jetset around the world, which is how she shows up in both Paris and New York.
* ''Series/TedLasso'': After [[spoiler:getting hired to coach West Ham]] Nate is set up on a date with Anastasia, a bombshell supermodel, at an exclusive club. Nate takes her to his favorite Greek hole-in-the-wall, but she (overdressed and overglammed) thinks it's dumpy and ditches him to hang out with similarly posh-looking people.
* ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'': Lady Penelope is a world-renowned supermodel on top of being an aristocrat and secret agent. All of these descriptors result in a very chic and beautiful woman who drives a distinct Rolls-Royce, travels around the world to attend shows and galas, is frequently photographed, and wears designer exclusives.
* ''Series/UglyBetty'': Wilhelmina Slater was a rich girl turned supermodel, who was able to parlay her successful career into a high-powered fashion magazine executive. Her taste for the finer things in life has remained constant throughout, as has her imperious personality.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the video for "Music/BestFriend" by Music/FosterThePeople. While the supermodel protagonist of the video does get to bask in the adoration of onlookers, wear fancy clothes, and get into hot nightclubs, it all comes at a great cost. Not only does modeling feed her insecurities, but the actions she takes to stay on top make her both metaphorically and literally a monster. And several women die when she [[SwallowedWhole ravenously devours]] them alive in order to steal their beauty.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'': Tulip, the Alfornada Gym Leader, is a model and makeup artist. She is a hyperfeminine and elegant woman who is mentioned to have a ''very'' busy schedule.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Original]]
* Parodied with the ''[[https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2023/04/12/whats-balenciaga-to-do-about-the-harry-potter-meme/?sh=789962e780ab Balenciaga Harry Potter]]'' Meme and derivations: every video has the characters' faces (or an approximation thereof) plastered on models' bodies and wearing the fashion brand's extravagant outfits. Some videos actually have the character say some lines of dialogue from the books/series/whatever their origin, altered to fit the Balenciaga image.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Adrien Agreste, as the only son of a famous fashion designer, may have lived a glamorous life regardless, but his ''modeling career'' for said dad's company plasters his face all over Paris, connects him with celebrities, and gives him hordes of fans.
[[/folder]]
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