Monika Addams [ Modeling Director ] (180 views)

Monika Anne Addams

Monika is 30 years old, and her birthday is on June 18th

Monika is known as a hard-ass. She does not like her models to be bland or boring—she will push her students to their limits. Her teaching style involves a lot of ‘tough love’. Monika cannot stand for force-diets or models going down the path of unhealthiness for the sake of beauty—and she encourages her models to be healthy and beautiful. Her goal is to teach all her students that the two are not mutually exclusive.

Monika is the modeling director at Metric Academy. She works with all age groups, as there are models in both the college and high school. Monika prefers to work with the “model seniors”, AKA, the higher-level college students, but of course has her time spent on up and coming models, those in the high school and early college years.

Monika teaches both college and high school students.

See above. Monika is the modeling instructor at the campus and her office is located in the modeling building. Monika is a well-respected director, though young, as her portfolio is full of her photos as a plus-sized model in her college years, and her work with other models in the industry to make them the best they could be.

Monika’s closest to her boyfriend on campus but she is close to Susan Summers, who lives in the same apartment complex she does. She and Susan oftentimes will have ‘girls’ nights’ during which they binge watch movies of varying qualities or make fun of the desperate guys on tinder after Adelaide goes to bed.

Monika actually considers herself rival to the other modeling directors on campus simply because being a modeling director at Metric Academy is a very prestigious position and if cuts need to be made, Monika wants to ensure she will not be one of them.

Heterosexual

Dating Leo Fletcher

5’8”

Blonde

Green

Designer, feminine, comfortable, breezy, stylish

Closet

Swedish-American

Hayley Hasseloff

fashion, cameras, pictures of herself, wearing sundresses and sunglasses, attractive men, students who care, celtic music, exercising, coffee, nighttime, retail therapy, singing (though bad at it), her boyfriend, children (in small doses), feminism,

Double standards, discovering her students are unhealthy, most greens, thunderstorms, unfaithfulness/adultery, ‘open relationships’, gross or disgusting smells (like sweat or the scent of gasoline), being seen without makeup/before her shower and coffee, mornings, waiting for people, most rap music, body shaming

Focused, driven, firm to her beliefs, tough, thick skinned, healthy, fashionable, polite, cool, organized, intelligent, confident, opinionated, independent, demanding/gets what she wants, feminist,

Hard to impress, diva, demanding, ‘tough love’ type of person, bossy, naggy, impatient, easily jealous, self-serving, uptight, easily offended, short tempered,

Dancing (though she’s very bad at it, it’s something that she and Leo do together)

Father – Arnold Addams – Manager at a Convenience Store – Arnold was and is Monika’s only living family left. He raised her after the death of her mother, and when she was younger Monika found Arnold infuriating and insufferable. However, now that she’s older Monika respects him a lot more and even when she was younger she never stopped loving him—her patience just wore thin. Arnold and Monika talk on the phone once a week to keep updated on one another’s lives and she’s friends with him on facebook, but other than that Monika and her father don’t speak much. They’re both very independent people and don’t require a lot of communication to have a healthy relationship.

Monika’s mother died when she was just shy of a year old and so it fell onto her father Arnold Addams, to raise her alone. Arnold was always a very eccentric and wild man and when she was a child, Monika found him completely annoying. Despite everything though, he was always there for her and he never missed a concert, performance, or school graduation.

Monika missed having a mother figure in her life, and that was probably the one thing about her childhood that Monika wishes was different. Instead Monika always looked up to her female teachers as ‘mothers’, and even made the mistake of calling one ‘mom’ once in public, leading to her most embarrassing moment in educational history when she was about 13 years old.

When she was young she didn’t know she wanted to be a modeling director or a model, for that matter. Monika always wanted to be a singer. However she was notoriously bad at it and received a lot of grief for it. It wasn’t so bad when she joined her high school choir since she was just a voice in the background, but when she got solos, the only person who even remotely enjoyed her voice was her father in the audience. She got bullied a lot for not being able to sing but trying to anyway in high school, but Monika was determined to try anyway. And as the school choir wasn’t supposed to be elitist or exclusive, they couldn’t kick her out though they tried to limit her solos greatly. Monika was not happy about this and threw fits—thus resulting in the school having to relent.

It wasn’t until her auditions for Metric Academy, which she wanted to attend in her junior year of high school through senior year of college, were rejected that Monika finally gave up choir. Monika was still teased about this but didn’t let it bother her, and instead she just took to focusing on her academics, deciding that she would wait until her senior year of high school to decide what to do with her life.

When she was a junior in high school, she decided she’d go to college for teaching.

Monika was unable to afford the tuition on her own though, even with loans and scholarships. So she decided to make a little side money by doing what she knew she could do while she was still in school—modeling. Monika was given a few opportunities to be a plus-sized model for a clothing line that offered a generous starting rate and the more Monika did in modeling the more she realized she loved to do it. She quickly became a regular at the studio and her portfolio got her many other offers, and by the time she was a senior in high school Monika had already saved up enough to cover her first year’s tuition, with gigs in line to cover her next year all set up.

However something Monika didn’t expect to happen, happened. As she’d applied to Metric when she was younger, her father decided to send her modeling portfolio to Metric for evaluation. And Monika was accepted in the college, for the next year, provided her grades stayed in the B and higher range. At first Monika was angry at her father for doing this without telling her, but the more she thought about it the more Monika found this opportunity a blessing. She decided to go, and persue a double major in education and modeling.

But it was while she was at the college that she discovered her real passion—teaching models. A lot of her modeling courses required her to work with the high school students to improve their portfolios and Monika loved to tell the students what to do, give them orders, and then have their work improve drastically as a result. Monika decided to combine her modeling skills and teaching skills and decided to become a modeling director. She took a few business courses to help her with that aspect of her dream, and after she graduated, Monika was 24 years old and looking for a job.

Initially, Monika worked for a small agency training their models. It was much harder working with the models in the agency—they were all much more self-absorbed than the students were—and hated to be given instruction. Still, it was through Monika’s headstrong personality that she managed to reel them in and produce the best work she could out of them. It was hard work, but rewarding.

Monika didn’t like her job though. She missed the environment of a college, her teachers, and students who actually cared about their career and not their diva attitudes. Monika looked into other teaching careers in schools, and to her surprise, she found out that one of the positions as a modeling director opened up in Metric. She sent out an application, and went in for an interview and the interviewer already knew her as a great alumni. Monika’s resume was good and so she was hired after a brief bit of consideration. By the time she was 26, Monika was employed as a modeling director at Metric, which is where she has bene since.

Immediately upon being hired at Metric Monika found a new respect emerged for her in the industry. The position itself was protective, and as students began graduating, so were her models. Monika keeps in frequent contact with different modeling agencies, and is the person for models to go to if they need internships or career opportunities. Monika gained a reputation as a strict teacher, but a successful one, and one who if you took her courses you’d be challenged but given good opportunities.

Inside the school, Monika made friends as well. She met her boyfriend, Leo Fletcher, through working at Metric as well as her current closest friend Susan Summers, though the two of them only grew so close this year. Monika babysits her daughter, Adelaide, when Susan is busy.

• Monika drives a 2011 Dodge Charger. She's not particularly passionate about her car, but it takes her from point A to point B, and she likes it just fine. It always smells of fruit due to the scent plug-in she's got on her AC.

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