You can make an outtake video.
Yeah, I might do that.
Uncovered.
Okay, let's go again.
My name's Adela, I'm 19, I'm a model, a journalist,
a radio presenter and a student.
My first article was for a small online zine called iCluck,
and it was about a Mike and Coromantz concert.
After four years of being a high artist, it's very exciting.
Well, as I was growing up, I was always into English
and creative writing, poetry.
My stepdad actually was a journalist and a music author,
and he would sort of nurture me and help me write my stories
and type them up on an old computer.
And as I got older and older and got into music,
I got the opportunity through him to go to concerts,
and then I realised I wanted to write about them.
So I did.
It started off writing for a lot of small online zines.
I'm doing a lot of independent work,
but then I got a big break with a Clash magazine,
and when I was 16, I got to go to a Reading Festival
and cover the whole festival, so that was my first big opportunity.
I quite like to have a full-time career as a journalist.
Just for that being my profession, because I love to write,
I love to hear people's stories,
uncover truths and things like that.
Working freelance at the moment, it's great
because you don't have those sort of boundaries and rules
that you would get if you were on a salary,
but that is not steady.
I'd love to write for Vice,
because I think the direction, the editorial direction,
is quite different to other outlets.
It's edgy, and they cover stories
that wouldn't necessarily be in mainstream media.
An upcoming sort of media outlet, Bitch Media,
they do feminist sort of art schools,
and they talk about female empowerment,
which is very important to me.
I probably really like to work for Daze and Confused as well,
because I like their artistic aesthetic
and some of the fashion things that they cover.
I originally started modelling as a muse
for a lot of my friends' art projects,
and they would just sort of ask me to post photographs
of sketches and things like that.
I didn't take it too seriously at first,
and then it was sort of a joke.
I put up my profile on a popular modelling website
and started getting jobs.
I was actually thrown in at the deep end,
and my first job was modelling for a footwear company.
It was a shoot that started at 7 in the morning,
and we did a spring summer lip book.
I've been doing modelling for about four years.
I get all of my own work,
and yes, it can be quite taxing and hard,
working freelance,
because not only are you marketing yourself,
but you're also your own PA
and your own negotiator of these and things like that.
I wouldn't mind being signed, actually,
because obviously that would take the hard bit out for me,
but it does mean that I get to have a lot more artistic control
over what I do and what jobs I do,
and yes, I prefer being a bit freer as well.
To me, the overall opinions that matter
are the people that matter to me,
so if I care about them,
then I take their opinion on board.
Society makes people diverse,
and that needs to be represented on the catwalk and in campaigns.
I remember an interview with Jordan Dunn,
who had a makeup artist that refused to work with her,
because she didn't understand how to work with black or coloured skin,
and I just think that's quite appalling.
If that's your profession to make people up,
then you should be experienced in all skin types.
Otherwise, that says quite a lot about you,
and it is a shame that in the last two decades,
the only notable black models in the mainstream modelling industry
are probably Naomi Campbell and Jordan Dunn.
I think that really needs to change.
Now, I don't believe in body shaving at all.
I think it's really wrong that you do get some natural sized zeroes,
and if you're naturally like that, you can't help it,
but there was also this sort of conspiracy
that women have to be in certain sides,
and I think it does affect society as a whole
when they open a high fashion magazine
and they see all these airbrushed and thin models,
because they think that that's attainable,
when there definitely needs to be more done
to show people that a lot goes into the process of post-production.
But I definitely think that that's coming out a lot now,
and there's been a lot of awareness online,
so that's a good thing.
Your body suddenly becomes not your own because...
It's not like they initially made you feel about that thing.
Yeah, I know some...
Some people are like, this is wrong, that's wrong, this is wrong.
Yeah, exactly.
Why should I change the way I look at it?
If you didn't think I was perfect, I don't mind.
Yeah, definitely.
I think also you have to be quite strong-minded to be in the industry
because if you are going to be scrutinised,
people are going to be looking at aspects of you.
They might ask you to change.
I know people that are managed by big model agents in London.
Literally one of the girls was in Year 9,
and they asked her to lose four inches off her hips.
Someone in Year 9, how old are you in Year 9?
Maybe 14, 15?
Yeah.
For a 14 or a 15 year old to lose four inches off their hips
when they are already small enough to be in a big model agency
is ridiculous.
You know, if you just go out and she did a bit of modelling,
she got really thin on a juicing diet.
It's sustainable as well.
If you are going to lose weight in a really unhealthy way,
then 9 times out of 10, it's not sustainable
and you can't keep that weight.
You are either going to go back up again.
I've been quite lucky I've worked with some really creative people
and some really inspiring people.
It can be really relaxed and really creative
and a great atmosphere to be in
because you are bouncing ideas off of each other
and you get to collaborate with people
to create ultimately the desired,
the desired image.
I definitely want to work on more conceptual shoes
and just carry on creating really.
I wasn't over it.
Yeah, we'll have to answer to everybody.
