If this doesn't inspire you to listen to that voice deep down telling you what you really want to do with your life, than we don't know what will. Even when we meet the graceful Jodie Smith passing one of SOMW's interviews on Melrose, could have seemed totally random... or was it Jodi on her right path.
At the age of 9 Jodie was walking down the hallway in her mother's heels. She, like many girls, wanted to model, but as Jodi grew she decided to pursue a career in finance since numbers came easy for her. (I credit the UK school system for that where Jodie's sexy accent is from.) But it sent her down a path in which she was constantly not being true to herself and was a product of her environment.
Jodie and her mother had moved to Maryland and Jodie went to college in Pittsburgh, graduated, and went to work in Finance despite years of people reminding her she should Model. During her breaks she would always be reading fashion magazines and still dressed killer but the other ladies were trying to hold her back and make her dress more conservative aka frumpy. Finally she said screw it and decided to act out and live her life a little closer to that 9 year old girl with a dream.
That's when she went to an N.E.R.D. concert with a friend and knowing the sound guys, where backstage hanging out. That's when lead singer, Pharrell, asked her why she isn't modeling and made her call famed director Hype Williams right there on her Blackberry. Sounds crazy right? They talked about meeting up when she went to visit L.A.
She did go to L.A. and Hype told her to call him when she arrived. She did and they took her straight to set, threw her in an outfit, and said she was the first girl up. She was in a whirlwind of her stars aligning and she almost couldn't keep up. She got off the plane and moments later was dancing with Kanye West in a Video Directed by Hype Williams!
Now this sounds like 1 in a million chances and it very well may be. But she would never have seen that 1 chance if she decided to not be...Jodie Smith...Model.
The rest is history and Jodi has since done a Levi's Campaign and shot several shoots and walked in a show in San Francisco and is with NEXT Models in L.A.
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