If you read the captions you'll see a bit more. It's not about the posing, it's about the dieting and the fraying relationships with others. Modeling has its o

If you read the captions you'll see a bit more. It's not about the posing, it's about the dieting and the fraying relationships with others. Modeling has its own dark side but it's a job in which you work with co-workers. You're not getting your sister to take the shots. You're not disrupting family life in the same way. You also aren't actually graded on popularity and "likes" in the same way -- your job goes well or poorly and certainly since it's about appearance you get all the food disorders and etc, but there's still a level of remove. Someone else is taking the pictures and telling you what to wear and how to stand. The creative endeavor is not all on you. This girl, by contrast, was not just the person who posed but the one who set up the shots, had the sister take them, watched the "ratings," did the testing on what people liked, etc. On the one hand, that complete "creative control" is cool. On the other hand, she was very literally chasing the approval of others. I think they probably skimmed right on over some of the really dark parts, like the restricted eating and insecurity that this sort of externalized approval processes would cause in most 15-year-olds. Some of us old people do weird s(tuff) when a high-school reunion is coming up, and we are supposed to be mature and grounded. Haha. But remember, that 15 is definitely an age where you have a somewhat more limited idea of the scope and shape of a good life.