‘It sucks your soul’: Suki Waterhouse says she was exploited by modelling agency when she first started out and would ‘spend the summer trying to get skinny’ to please them
She made her name modelling lingerie for Marks & Spencer, but now Suki Waterhouse has spoken of the soul-biting years she was exploited by an unnamed model agency.
‘When you’re a model you’re kind of being trained and brainwashed that you’re just mute and there’s just a billion people touching you and creating for their vision.
‘It does suck your soul a little bit,’ admits Suki.
‘Those first few years were like toppling around London in ginormous heels because I wasn’t very tall and spending the summer trying to change my body and get really skinny so that they’ll be happy with me,’ says Suki of the modelling agency that she was signed to.
The Daisy Jones & The Six star adds: ‘If I got paid a couple of hundred pounds a show, they would organise me to get an envelope with some money in it at the end.
Speaking out: She made her name modelling lingerie for M&S, but now Suki Waterhouse has spoken of the soul-biting years she was exploited by an unnamed model agency
Tough: ‘Those first few years were like toppling around London in ginormous heels because I wasn’t very tall and spending the summer trying to get really skinny’, she says (pictured 2012)
‘They would say get on the bus and come back to the agency and give us the cash, and then I would never see the money again, it would go towards expenses.’
Suki began her modelling career after being discovered in ‘either a Topshop or H&M’ in London when she was 16.
When she was 19, she became a lingerie model for Marks and Spencer. She turned to acting in 2014 when she played Bethany Williams in the romantic comedy Love, Rosie.
The actress has been promoting her upcoming Amazon Prime Video series, Daisy Jones & The Six with other cast members, such as Riley Keough and Camila Morrone.
The British star portrays the character of keyboardist, Karen Sirko, in the hotly- anticipated show, which is set to premiere on the streaming site on Friday, March 3.
According to an IMDB synopsis, the premise of the series follows, ‘the rise of rock band Daisy Jones and The Six through the ’70s LA music scene on their quest for worldwide icon status.’
Alongside Suki, the star-studded cast also includes Lisa Marie Presley’s daughter, Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Camila Morrone, Will Harrison, Nabiyah Be, Josh Whitehouse, and also Will Harrison.
During an interview with Insider, Waterhouse opened up about portraying her character, Karen, which she had been officially cast for back in February 2020.
TV: The actress has been promoting her upcoming Amazon Prime Video series, Daisy Jones & The Six with other cast members, such as Riley Keough and Camila Morrone
The actress, who released her debut studio album last year in May titled I Can’t Let Go, spoke about fulfilling both her passion of acting and music.
‘I really wanted that project, and maybe subconsciously it was something to do with my own desire to make a record,’ she explained.
The beauty further expressed her desire to tackle the role by adding, ‘I’ve always desperately wanted to have the life of a musician and I was really drawn to the project because of that. Then my life was kind of melded into these two things, where I recorded my record while prepping for Daisy Jones.’
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