Not So Sweet Sixteen: Addressing One-Time “Open Model Call” in a local Redlands, California Magazine | Written By: Carrie Elizabeth Johnson, Employment Defense Paralegal Student
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Not So Sweet Sixteen: Addressing the One-Time “Open Model Call” Advertisement in a local Redlands, California Magazine
Written By: Carrie Elizabeth Johnson, Black American Female Paralegal Student | Non-Attorney | Non-Famous Person 
Carrie Elizabeth Johnson entered the State of California Jurisdiction in the year 2000 with her biological mother, Barbara Ann Bradley. She was a summer baby that was entering the Redlands Unified School District at the age of 15 that was going on 16 and was able to leave the Parkway North School District early with a longer summer vacation. At first the move for Carrie, brought in new and exciting energy because she could remember as a child, praying to get out of Saint Louis, Missouri to see California. Both Carrie and her mother moved into a two-bedroom/two-bath apartment inside the Orange Village Apartment Complex, located in Redlands, California. Normal weather conditions in Redlands, California are usually hot and dry heat in the Inland Empire. The Inland Empire is known to occasionally have some wildfires that Carrie had not seen before, back in the Midwest. They did some sight-seeing at the Santa Monica Pier, driving up to Big Bear Mountain, did some window shopping at the local Big Bear downtown shops, drove out to Ontario Mills Mall as well as the shops at Cabazon, where Carrie worked to buy her first Christian Dior wallet. The sources of the funds for her Christian Dior wallet originated from Carrie’s paycheck with her past employment for the California National Guard. Her mother settled in at work for the Wells Fargo Mortgage Company, located in San Bernardino, California once they bought out GE Capital Mortgage in Saint Louis, Missouri. Carrie’s summer vacation in the year 2000 was boring, because she had to make friends and did not have a car of her own to drive around in to explore her new town when her mother was at work all day. It was a control factor associated with her biological mother not purchasing a car for Carrie on her 16th Birthday, leaving Carrie in the house most of the time when she wanted to go look for a job to start making money.
Without a driver’s license, Carrie was spending most of her days inside the air conditioner apartment watching tv, listening to music until one day her mother told her to go outside and walk around in the hot heat because she was in her room all day. Both Carrie and her mother would bicker back and forth on many occasions, leaving Carrie in her room who could go without days or sometimes weeks not speaking to her biological mother while living up under the same roof. Carrie saw two girls that appeared to be among her age, named Laura and Jasmine Lee that both lived in the Orange Village Apartments. Laura lived on her own while attending either Orangewood continuation school or home-study with her own apartment. Whereas, Jasmine Lee, a graduate of Redlands East Valley High School lived in an apartment unit with her blind mother. Laura’s complexion and eyes looked sort of Hawaiian/Asian as opposed to Jasmine Lee being a dark-skinned black American female. The Orange Village Apartments was located across the street from a Circle K Gas Station and Carniceria Los Vasquez, located in Redlands, California. The girls got acquainted fast and frequently made daily stops to the Circle K and Carrie would pick up tacos at the Carniceria Los Vasquez and Jasmine would normally buy the quesadillas only. Before her mother was on her way to work in the mornings, she would leave money on the kitchen counter for Carrie to grab something to eat when she did not want to eat anything in the house. At the time, Carrie was only given the option of buying food from across the street since she did not have a car of her own to find something better to eat. The Redlands, California public transit did not run frequently and the walk to the Redlands downtown shops and eateries was a distant walk for both Carrie and Jasmine Lee that opted out for the walk in the hot heat for food across the street. The Circle K gas station had local magazines, such as a penny saver and Inland Empire magazines with local advertisement for work from home “stuffing envelopes” or “open call looking for models”.
As a vulnerable jobseeker, Carrie Elizabeth Johnson inquired to both ads looking for ways to earn some money, while being a high school student. Carrie opened one of these local Inland Empire magazines and saw an ad that was doing an open call for models. After a phone call, Carrie went into her mother’s room asking for a ride to a location in San Bernardino, California. Carrie’s mother drove her up to a long line of girls that all responded to the same ad that was not a modeling agency but a modeling school instead. From Carrie’s memory, she cannot remember if it was Barbizon modeling school or another local modeling school that did require upfront fees associated with being selected by the judges of the young girls responding to the ad. It was typical behavior to fill-out a contact card on those looking to be a model, headshots taken, a runway walk and long wait to be seen for a decision. Carrie was fully clothed during her walk for the modeling school and was not asked to model in barely (nothing) clothing. The modeling school decided not to pick Carrie leaving her discourage and in tears that she went to tell the girls from Redlands East Valley High School about her first experience that was solely motivated by earning a ton of money with the knowledge of the perks with modeling gigs that included travel. However, as a child no one ever heard Carrie talking about pursuing a career in modeling outside of their silent observations (judgements) of her working to buy herself nice things that include Dooney and Bourke bags that she could not afford as a teenager. Not to mention, Carrie would play in older female relative’s jewelry box, perfume, hats and play dress-up. It was neither an interest, love, desire, or passion to be in the modeling industry, but Carrie’s sole motivation was to earn some extra money since her biological mother did not allow her to have a job in high school. Being discouraged did not last long and Carrie proceeded with being a local high school student and was never seen with any famous people or famous people’s kids, growing up in both Missouri, Arkansas, and California. To this day, Carrie Elizabeth Johnson has no memory growing up in either Arkansas, Missouri, or California every meeting famous people or seeing her mother invite them over to her apartment.
Carrie’s biological mother did not take her daughter on any more open calls or anything that had to do with the entertainment industry at all, despite Carrie mentioning trying to sing and dance while she was in high school. The youngest of three girls by a different alleged biological father, Carrie lived with her mother the longest under her roof and never saw her mother invite famous people over to her apartment from her memory and in her presence to witness it. Carrie enters the Redlands Unified School District at the age of 16, where the racial makeup of the students were predominantly Hispanics (never been friends with Hispanics or Latinos that need to respect cultural differences! All hate crimes will be reported!), Black or white (Fact, I have no white friends!) with no reflection of Italian Americans (not friends with this race of people), Iranians, Scottish, London (English UK), French, German, Africans or Irish at all. Her time as a teenager in Redlands, California was spent attending local high school basketball games, high school football games, she never attended boring baseball games, shopping malls, Redlands Market Nights on Thursdays, entered one high school talent show, attended one homecoming dance, hung out at Gotham “teen nights” Club in San Bernardino, California and was invited to a few house parties with the local high school students. At no point in time, did any of the local students hear Carrie say that she was pursuing any friendship with famous people, famous athletes, famous singers that were either male or female, famous rappers that were male or female, famous Rockstars, famous models, famous homosexuals (that includes LGBTQIA non-famous individuals) or famous super models that are now parents themselves that Carrie would not allow around her daughter. The headshots taken at the open call were the first photos taken by any modeling school and it would not be until the early 2000’s that Carrie would pay a professional photographer that happened to be a black female to take some modeling photos of her when she was attending Riverside Community College. Most of the local Redlands students would either go to Ontario Mills Mall or Carousel Mall to take photos at the photography studio that was located inside the mall and then pass them out to their fellow classmates at school.
During Carrie’s government training for both Bootcamp and AIT, she took some individual photos in her service uniform as well as class photos for her training yearbook that upon her return to California in 2002 & 2003, she passed those photos out to people that included Hispanic REV students that Carrie never spoke to ever again, once she graduated from school. She enrolled into Riverside Community College and felt more confident to have some new photos done as a late birthday gift to herself. She created a ModelMayhem.com profile and was able to find a local photographer, named Michelle Cox that happened to have a location in the Inland Empire to take some professional photos of Carrie. Before the photo shoot, Carrie was able to find a black female hair stylist that was sewing weaves inside her apartment and did Carrie’s hair for the photoshoot. Carrie selected clothes from Citiwear, Fashion Joy, and jewelry from a local beauty supply store that was in Redlands, California for the photo shoot. It was a one-on-one photo shoot with no disrespectful homosexuals of the modeling industry in the photography studio to cast their unsolicited judgements, insecurities, or unwanted advice for Carrie, during her photoshoot. Photographer, Michelle Cox re-curled Carrie’s hair, did her make-up, provided instructions on how to pose for the camera, did the photography and editing of those photos, while her daughter was not present for the photoshoot. It was a safe environment because it was just the two of them working together in a professional capacity and the wardrobe was nothing more than a pair of blue jeans, rhinestone gold high heels, long white sleeve shirt and a silk red short-sleeve shirt that just happened to be Carrie’s former high school colors and her favorite color. The photos from that shoot were used by Carrie as profile pictures for different various online platforms, as she was the face of her company, InnovativeLegal, LLC that was never a family business (other family businesses do not dictate nor tell me how to run my company or household!).
After the photo shoot there was no further communication between Carrie and photographer Michelle Cox until years later by e-mail because Carrie’s funds did not permit any further photoshoots and prioritizing life’s responsibilities and financial obligations would always come first that included purchasing something that her daughter needed. At no point did Carrie ever think that a governing authority figure would ever assume, she was a famous person based on that one set of professional photos, considering what her tax returns disclosed and what type of cars she was driving around in. Not to mention, Carrie would never spend her hard-earned money on any artists concerts (Stephon, employee of Renaissance Hotel on St. Louis Landings took me to the Jay-Z Concert & paid for everything) or club venues for either male or female and was never seen hanging out with famous people let alone, reality tv people that she does not care to read up on their lives. Life responsibilities always came first that included putting her daughter first before Carrie did anything for herself or anything for a leisure activity. Overall, Carrie felt that professional photographer, Michelle Cox did a great job capturing both images with and without cleavage for professional profile images, such as LinkedIn. There is no interest in pursuing a modeling career at age, 39 and Carrie still can capture some professional photoshoots on her own. At the present time, Carrie will be finishing up a pre-existing associate degree where many of the core classes were taken over at Riverside City College.
Carrie Elizabeth Johnson entered the State of California Jurisdiction in the year 2000 with her biological mother, Barbara Ann Bradley. She was a summer baby that was entering the Redlands Unified School District at the age of 15 that was going on 16 and was able to leave the Parkway North School District early with a longer summer vacation. At first the move for Carrie, brought in new and exciting energy because she could remember as a child, praying to get out of Saint Louis, Missouri to see California. Both Carrie and her mother moved into a two-bedroom/two-bath apartment inside the Orange Village Apartment Complex, located in Redlands, California. Normal weather conditions in Redlands, California are usually hot and dry heat in the Inland Empire. The Inland Empire is known to occasionally have some wildfires that Carrie had not seen before, back in the Midwest. They did some sight-seeing at the Santa Monica Pier, driving up to Big Bear Mountain, did some window shopping at the local Big Bear downtown shops, drove out to Ontario Mills Mall as well as the shops at Cabazon, where Carrie worked to buy her first Christian Dior wallet. The sources of the funds for her Christian Dior wallet originated from Carrie’s paycheck with her past employment for the California National Guard. Her mother settled in at work for the Wells Fargo Mortgage Company, located in San Bernardino, California once they bought out GE Capital Mortgage in Saint Louis, Missouri. Carrie’s summer vacation in the year 2000 was boring, because she had to make friends and did not have a car of her own to drive around in to explore her new town when her mother was at work all day. It was a control factor associated with her biological mother not purchasing a car for Carrie on her 16th Birthday, leaving Carrie in the house most of the time when she wanted to go look for a job to start making money.
Without a driver’s license, Carrie was spending most of her days inside the air conditioner apartment watching tv, listening to music until one day her mother told her to go outside and walk around in the hot heat because she was in her room all day. Both Carrie and her mother would bicker back and forth on many occasions, leaving Carrie in her room who could go without days or sometimes weeks not speaking to her biological mother while living up under the same roof. Carrie saw two girls that appeared to be among her age, named Laura and Jasmine Lee that both lived in the Orange Village Apartments. Laura lived on her own while attending either Orangewood continuation school or home-study with her own apartment. Whereas, Jasmine Lee, a graduate of Redlands East Valley High School lived in an apartment unit with her blind mother. Laura’s complexion and eyes looked sort of Hawaiian/Asian as opposed to Jasmine Lee being a dark-skinned black American female. The Orange Village Apartments was located across the street from a Circle K Gas Station and Carniceria Los Vasquez, located in Redlands, California. The girls got acquainted fast and frequently made daily stops to the Circle K and Carrie would pick up tacos at the Carniceria Los Vasquez and Jasmine would normally buy the quesadillas only. Before her mother was on her way to work in the mornings, she would leave money on the kitchen counter for Carrie to grab something to eat when she did not want to eat anything in the house. At the time, Carrie was only given the option of buying food from across the street since she did not have a car of her own to find something better to eat. The Redlands, California public transit did not run frequently and the walk to the Redlands downtown shops and eateries was a distant walk for both Carrie and Jasmine Lee that opted out for the walk in the hot heat for food across the street. The Circle K gas station had local magazines, such as a penny saver and Inland Empire magazines with local advertisement for work from home “stuffing envelopes” or “open call looking for models”.
As a vulnerable jobseeker, Carrie Elizabeth Johnson inquired to both ads looking for ways to earn some money, while being a high school student. Carrie opened one of these local Inland Empire magazines and saw an ad that was doing an open call for models. After a phone call, Carrie went into her mother’s room asking for a ride to a location in San Bernardino, California. Carrie’s mother drove her up to a long line of girls that all responded to the same ad that was not a modeling agency but a modeling school instead. From Carrie’s memory, she cannot remember if it was Barbizon modeling school or another local modeling school that did require upfront fees associated with being selected by the judges of the young girls responding to the ad. It was typical behavior to fill-out a contact card on those looking to be a model, headshots taken, a runway walk and long wait to be seen for a decision. Carrie was fully clothed during her walk for the modeling school and was not asked to model in barely (nothing) clothing. The modeling school decided not to pick Carrie leaving her discourage and in tears that she went to tell the girls from Redlands East Valley High School about her first experience that was solely motivated by earning a ton of money with the knowledge of the perks with modeling gigs that included travel. However, as a child no one ever heard Carrie talking about pursuing a career in modeling outside of their silent observations (judgements) of her working to buy herself nice things that include Dooney and Bourke bags that she could not afford as a teenager. Not to mention, Carrie would play in older female relative’s jewelry box, perfume, hats and play dress-up. It was neither an interest, love, desire, or passion to be in the modeling industry, but Carrie’s sole motivation was to earn some extra money since her biological mother did not allow her to have a job in high school. Being discouraged did not last long and Carrie proceeded with being a local high school student and was never seen with any famous people or famous people’s kids, growing up in both Missouri, Arkansas, and California. To this day, Carrie Elizabeth Johnson has no memory growing up in either Arkansas, Missouri, or California every meeting famous people or seeing her mother invite them over to her apartment.
Carrie’s biological mother did not take her daughter on any more open calls or anything that had to do with the entertainment industry at all, despite Carrie mentioning trying to sing and dance while she was in high school. The youngest of three girls by a different alleged biological father, Carrie lived with her mother the longest under her roof and never saw her mother invite famous people over to her apartment from her memory and in her presence to witness it. Carrie enters the Redlands Unified School District at the age of 16, where the racial makeup of the students were predominantly Hispanics (never been friends with Hispanics or Latinos that need to respect cultural differences! All hate crimes will be reported!), Black or white (Fact, I have no white friends!) with no reflection of Italian Americans (not friends with this race of people), Iranians, Scottish, London (English UK), French, German, Africans or Irish at all. Her time as a teenager in Redlands, California was spent attending local high school basketball games, high school football games, she never attended boring baseball games, shopping malls, Redlands Market Nights on Thursdays, entered one high school talent show, attended one homecoming dance, hung out at Gotham “teen nights” Club in San Bernardino, California and was invited to a few house parties with the local high school students. At no point in time, did any of the local students hear Carrie say that she was pursuing any friendship with famous people, famous athletes, famous singers that were either male or female, famous rappers that were male or female, famous Rockstars, famous models, famous homosexuals (that includes LGBTQIA non-famous individuals) or famous super models that are now parents themselves that Carrie would not allow around her daughter. The headshots taken at the open call were the first photos taken by any modeling school and it would not be until the early 2000’s that Carrie would pay a professional photographer that happened to be a black female to take some modeling photos of her when she was attending Riverside Community College. Most of the local Redlands students would either go to Ontario Mills Mall or Carousel Mall to take photos at the photography studio that was located inside the mall and then pass them out to their fellow classmates at school.
During Carrie’s government training for both Bootcamp and AIT, she took some individual photos in her service uniform as well as class photos for her training yearbook that upon her return to California in 2002 & 2003, she passed those photos out to people that included Hispanic REV students that Carrie never spoke to ever again, once she graduated from school. She enrolled into Riverside Community College and felt more confident to have some new photos done as a late birthday gift to herself. She created a ModelMayhem.com profile and was able to find a local photographer, named Michelle Cox that happened to have a location in the Inland Empire to take some professional photos of Carrie. Before the photo shoot, Carrie was able to find a black female hair stylist that was sewing weaves inside her apartment and did Carrie’s hair for the photoshoot. Carrie selected clothes from Citiwear, Fashion Joy, and jewelry from a local beauty supply store that was in Redlands, California for the photo shoot. It was a one-on-one photo shoot with no disrespectful homosexuals of the modeling industry in the photography studio to cast their unsolicited judgements, insecurities, or unwanted advice for Carrie, during her photoshoot. Photographer, Michelle Cox re-curled Carrie’s hair, did her make-up, provided instructions on how to pose for the camera, did the photography and editing of those photos, while her daughter was not present for the photoshoot. It was a safe environment because it was just the two of them working together in a professional capacity and the wardrobe was nothing more than a pair of blue jeans, rhinestone gold high heels, long white sleeve shirt and a silk red short-sleeve shirt that just happened to be Carrie’s former high school colors and her favorite color. The photos from that shoot were used by Carrie as profile pictures for different various online platforms, as she was the face of her company, InnovativeLegal, LLC that was never a family business (other family businesses do not dictate nor tell me how to run my company or household!).
After the photo shoot there was no further communication between Carrie and photographer Michelle Cox until years later by e-mail because Carrie’s funds did not permit any further photoshoots and prioritizing life’s responsibilities and financial obligations would always come first that included purchasing something that her daughter needed. At no point did Carrie ever think that a governing authority figure would ever assume, she was a famous person based on that one set of professional photos, considering what her tax returns disclosed and what type of cars she was driving around in. Not to mention, Carrie would never spend her hard-earned money on any artists concerts (Stephon, employee of Renaissance Hotel on St. Louis Landings took me to the Jay-Z Concert & paid for everything) or club venues for either male or female and was never seen hanging out with famous people let alone, reality tv people that she does not care to read up on their lives. Life responsibilities always came first that included putting her daughter first before Carrie did anything for herself or anything for a leisure activity. Overall, Carrie felt that professional photographer, Michelle Cox did a great job capturing both images with and without cleavage for professional profile images, such as LinkedIn. There is no interest in pursuing a modeling career at age, 39 and Carrie still can capture some professional photoshoots on her own. At the present time, Carrie will be finishing up a pre-existing associate degree where many of the core classes were taken over at Riverside City College.
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