Models are usually seen on the covers of magazines and gracefully walking down high fashion runways. For the most part, they are the viewed as the standard of beauty in western culture. These women are tall, thin, and in a full face of makeup with expensive clothes. Only a select few are chosen to become models and they are expected to look perfect. Brunette Moffy is an up and coming model, with one major difference from the rest: she’s cross-eyed.
Moffy has a condition called strabismus, which causes her eyes to not line up properly. In an interview with telegraph.com, she explained that she feels very lucky that her looks have captured imagination of people and feels that her “funny eye” hasn’t yet been a disadvantage to her. She also said that when she was younger she had to wear big round glasses and an eye patch to try and strengthen her weaker eye. Her parents didn’t have her eye corrected by surgery when she was a child because they felt it was dangerous to put her under general anesthetic.
(Photo Credit: Shot by Hannah Hiller)
Moffy is now signed to modeling agency Storm Models, which also represents household names like Cindy Crawford and Kate Moss. Moffy was already featured on the spring/summer 2013 cover of Pop Magazine which nicknamed her “The Face” — and she certainly is stunning!
Perhaps Moffy’s sudden stardom will make the fashion industry more diverse and inclusive of different types of beauty. At 19, she has already been photographed by Tyrone Le Bon and Hannah Hiller. She was scouted at age 14 by Chelsea Amy Price from Storm Models and is now living in London.
What do you think about western culture’s standard of beauty?
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I’m glad to see some exceptions-although I still think it is crazy that clothes are designed to fit bodies that almost NO ONE has!
Congrats to Moffy for defying some stereotypes.
I do like that flaws are being accepted as beauty these days.
It’s nice to see the fashion world is embracing nontraditional forms of beauty. Now if they could only stop glorifying body types that require extreme food deprivation…then we might be getting somewhere!