Alyson Whitman

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Profile Name: Alyson Whitman Age: 14 School: Freshman at Billings Senior Favorite movie: \"Romy and Michele\'s High School Reunion\" Favorite TV shows: \"The O.C.\" and \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\" Favorite book: \"Ella Enchanted\" by Gail Carson Levine Favorite musical groups: Reel Big Fish, Don\'t Look Down, The Beatles Favorite food: \"don\'t really have any, but bagels are pretty good.\" Aly, as her friends and family call her, is a 14-year-old Billings Senior student. For the most part, she\'s your run-of-the-mill freshman: she enjoys soccer, takes dance lessons and plays piano; she spends part of her day at the freshman academy at Lincoln Center (she doesn\'t much care for it, by the way); she eats well (but no red meat, thank you). Her shoulder-length blond hair, sky-blue eyes and bright smile don\'t distinguish her from others her age. Through the lens of a camera, however, she has what those in the modeling industry call \"the look,\" and that \"look\" has landed her in the pages of a national fashion magazine. Four full-color, full-page photos of Aly\'s modeling work appeared in the March issue of CosmoGIRL! (That\'s her on pages 137, 141, 142 and 147.) The daylong shoot was her first as a working model. It was a first of another sort, she said, as friends at school found out about her unique job. "People really didn't know much about it," she said in a recent interview, somewhat reluctant to talk much about herself. "It was a big deal for about a week, but it's better now." Aly began taking runway and commercial workshops from Lynette Michael when Michael owned Creative World, a Billings model and talent agency. After she sold the agency a year ago, Michael continued to work with Aly to help her get noticed by a wider number of people. When Aly, with the blessing of her mother, Linda Gardner, signed with Elite Model Management New York last summer, Michael said it was the culmination of years of work for both she and Aly. Last July, they attended the Millie Lewis American Model and talent Conference in Orlando, Fla. The nearly 5-foot, 11-inch Aly walked the runway, posed for photos and did camera work for TV commercials. At the end of the convention, she was being pursued by some of the top model agencies in the world, including Next, T Model and Elite of New York; Nous Model and LA Model of Los Angeles; Cinq Duex Un and World Top in Tokyo; and the Fashion Model Management Spa in Milano, Italy. A 2003 poll done by Models.com showed that Elite and Next were among the top five women's modeling agencies in New York. Elite has more than 700 fashion models working around the world. Elite models have included actress Lara Flynn Boyle and Lauren Bush, niece of President Bush. "I had an idea (for a career) today," she said. "It was like an epiphany. But I forgot it."