Whats the aim of Britains Missing Top Model?
“It’s about broadening our notions of what beauty is. That’s what appealed to me about the show: having worked at model agencies for over 20 years, I think I had tunnel vision of what is and isn’t beautiful, and I don’t know if that always had a good effect on me. This show gives a bigger choice to girls who feel that their lives are quite limited and it helps them to feel good about themselves.”What sort of disabilities do the girls have?”There’s a whole range of disabilities. We have a couple of deaf girls and a couple of amputees; we have Sophie, who’s paralysed from the chest down; and Jenny, who’s had a really bad car accident and has quite severe neurological issues. But even with the disabilities we had to make sure the girls were believable as models. They’re all very pretty girls.”Is it harder for some of the girls to take part in shoots than others?”I think everybody had their share of tough shoots. In the nicest possible way, we had to make sure that some things were harder
