Ok so this is my mum. When she was younger she wanted to be a model and so happened to get pursued by a photographer when she was working at a cafe and he kind of wanted to help her get into it by taking photos. These are some of the photos above which were probably photographed sometime in the 1980s.
But when my mum was in her early twenties, she was in a car accident (she was in the passenger seat). It was pretty serious because she could have died by possibly breaking her neck, but instead she was left with her face being all cut up and needed around 60 or so stitches. So as a result of her accident her career (which was just starting to take off) came to a halt because of the stitches on her face. By the time her face healed up she had gotten to an age where most models would be retiring and therefore never got to fully pursue her dream.
In my eyes and so many others she’s still extremely beautiful because she gave me the gift of life and has taught me alot and I’ve learnt valuable things from her. She has a really bright smile and her laugh is one of those laughs that would make you laugh. She’s just very important to me for infinite amounts of reasons.
The reason I’m making this post in the first place is because my mother has been insecure about her looks ever since her accident and I know she’s extremely devastated that she didn’t really have the chance to get into modelling. Her birthday is on the 29th of March and as a birthday present I want to be able to show her this with thousands of notes below it, so I can tell her that there are thousands of people around the world who think she would have made a great model.
You don’t have to reblog this, I’m not going to force anyone but I would love you forever if you did because it would make me so happy to see my mothers lovely smile if this post were to get really popular.
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