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Ex-model speaks on the reality of Hollywood and how God saved her life

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Lingerie model was surprised to discover the truth behind Hollywood.

Hollywood seems to be a land full of glamorous promises and movie-like lives full of adventures, but according to a former model, it is much darker than that. Nicole Weider left her hometown at a young age to pursue her modelling dreams, but in Los Angeles she found that that life was not how the cameras have made it seem, causing her make some bad decisions, until she stumbled and pursued the walk with God.

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By Talia Ramos (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
8/19/2015 (8 years ago)

Published in Marriage & Family

Keywords: Nicole Weider, Hollywood, Modelling, Celebrity, Dreams, Christian, Project Inspired

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - "I wasn't ready for how competitive it really was," she said in a recent The Church Boys podcast, admitting that trying to make it big in Hollywood was a difficult task. "I had moved and uprooted my family... and so I wasn't sure how to make it work."

According to The Blaze, Weider convinced her parents to leave and moved to Hollywood when she was just 16. After turning 18, she left high school to seek the life she'd always wanted.

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Without any back-up plan, she started booking lingerie modelling gigs, including posing for Maxim.

"It made me feel really embarrassed being on set wearing just a bra and underwear, and I thought that it would be some glamorous event. And I just felt really degraded," said Weider. There, she saw what Hollywood really is like backstage, off-camera. Photographers hit on her unprofessionally and celebrities partied hard with drugs at the scene.

Weider was woken by the truth - the most beautiful models she knew were being Photoshopped for magazines and everybody was exposing themselves to outdo everyone else in the race. However, she was blessed, Weider is now a married Christian woman and a mother who guides girls to the glamorous dreams she once had through Project Inspired.

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