Dancers Make The Best Models

November 28, 2001

“Both professions require one to know their bodies really well, and to have discipline, like understanding how to move and make shapes. If you know your body, it’s not as awkward when you’re modeling because you’re already super conscious,” says Laura Love about the connection between modeling and dance to James Lin of nymag.com’s “The Cut” blog. Love performed with Los Angeles Ballet before quitting the stage a couple of years ago to become a model. The fashion world fell for her after photographer Bruce Weber shot an epic 15-page editorial with Love and New York City Ballet’s Chase Finlay (our last issue’s cover boy) for the April 2011 issue of French Vogue. But although Love says she enjoys having more time since giving up the disciplined life of a ballet dancer, she admits she still dances one and a half to three hours a day. You can take the girl out of the ballet world, but you can’t take ballet out of the girl.