The following is a guest post from Chelsea Olson, a twenty-something model, writer and Jill of all trades in Miami, who a few years back, got the chance of a life time to model in Japan for 3 months.
It’s hard to put the story of my time in Japan into just a few paragraphs as it was one of the most important and meaningful trips I have ever taken. In the late summer of 2009, barely three months after transplanting myself to New York City from Miami to chase my dreams of becoming a full-time model (while still a part-time online sophomore in college), I received an offer from an agency in Tokyo, Japan to come model with them. Continue reading

