Doutzen Kroes, my favorite model, covers the new issue of the Wall Street Journal Magazine. The photoshoot is gorgeous – go here to see. The vibe is very “ballet studio” and Doutzen is more contemplative as opposed to “fierce”. Which is fine. Doutzen is 30 years old right now, which means that she’s probably aging out of a lot of the modeling jobs these days, except Doutzen is still one of the most in-demand models in the world. She’s still with Victoria’s Secret, she still gets major magazine covers and she still headlines major campaigns. Here’s a secret for any magazine editors or bookers out there: most of us want more Doutzen and less Cara Delevingne. Truth. Anyway, you can read Doutzen’s WSJ. Magazine profile here. Some highlights:
Her career aspirations growing up in Holland: “I wanted to become a teacher like my mother, or a charity worker. But my mom says that when I was younger I told her, ‘People are going to know me,’ so I guess I always had that idea. We didn’t have fashion magazines around the house, so I would see someone like Jennifer Lopez’s CD covers and think, ‘I would love to have hair or makeup like that.'”
Moving to New York to start her career: “I secretly sent my pictures to a modeling agency in Amsterdam, and they sent me to New York…I lived in an apartment for models in the Meatpacking District, which back then was a place filled with all sorts of people that you couldn’t even look in the eye. I wasn’t booking jobs, and I was very lonely.”
Getting repeatedly rejected on casting calls for being “too pretty”: “It was strange: I thought, isn’t [being attractive] how it’s supposed to be?”
Where she’ll be in the next ten years: “I have no idea! Ten years ago, I had no idea I’d be here. Maybe I’ll do movies—I dream of working with particular directors—or maybe I’ll just live someplace quiet where I can grow my own vegetables.”
Balancing her and her husband’s (DJ Sunnery James) busy work schedules: “A lot of communication. Our agents are on the phone every other day. They’re the ones who keep us together.
I like the idea of Doutzen crossing over to movies. She could be a Bond Girl! Not to limit her or anything, I just think she would be a great Bond Girl. And I can’t imagine why “too pretty” is a liability in modeling. I guess the current trend is surly androgyny, or that jolie-laide look that is very styling-dependent. And yes, I’m thinking of Cara Delevingne again.
HONK IF YOU LOVE DOUTZEN.
Photos courtesy of Josh Olins for WSJ Magazine.
My favorite model. Ever.
Seriously, to me, she’s the most beautiful woman I could think of.
+ 1
She’s just stunning, even with no make up no! One of the few supermodels we have nowadays imho. And she isnt an attention seeker unlike others colleagues of hers (Ambrosio, Kerr)…..
Also not nearly as successful as Ambrosio.
Ambrosio is not so successful… She has a good PR team. That’s all.
I love her too. But we definitely had a couple of decades when the “classic beauty” look just didnt sell, at least not for runway or fashiony editorials and campaigns. It’s good for beauty/makeup/jewelry campaigns, but brands like those, from LOreal to Estee Lauder to Tiffanys, usually dont take total unknowns, but more established models. So weirdly this kind of beauty IS a bit of a disadvantage compared to more plane or androgynous or quirky looks.
Yes I agree . She is what Tara Banks would call commercial or not edgy enough. When some people think of models they think the girl must be beautiful but that’s not always the case. Doutzen is not what they call model pretty, instead she is stunning. I could see her having issues with the edgy or high fashion industry. Gisele, IMO is model pretty, not beautiful. She has that edgy, androgynous look about her.
Nothing against modern models but I do miss the days when models were allowed to be gorgeous and high fashion such as Crawford, Turlington, Evangelista, Mulder, Herzigova, Romijn and Christensen.
@V4Real I absolutely agree with your second paragraph!
Doutzen is gorgeous!
Yes! The heir to Grace Kelly. Stunning classic beauty. I could look at her face all day.
Same. I love this woman.
Happens in castings all the time. Happens to goodlooking guy actors, models too.
Characters have written descriptions in them and sometimes a person reading for a part or auditioning can be too pretty for that character description.
No big deal, eventually something comes which a person is right for.
She is absolutely stunning.
True.
Doutzen is lucky she’s also one of the few models that crossed over from commercial to HF.
She has numerous Vogue covers and walks for Dior, Victor & Rolf, Blamain.
At the same time she’s the face of CK and L’Oreal while getting shine for VS and catalogues.
I really hope she gets a UK Vogue cover soon.
I think it’s the other way round. Her kind of beauty allows her to do both unlike Karolina Kurkova (who truly belongs in HF imo). however i still remember 10 years ago looking at her on runways and thinking to myself that she is very “soft” looking for HF model, but just as fierce when needed.
And Jessica Biel! Goodlooking guy actors, models AND Jessica Biel.
No honk.
And i’m casting shade on anyone who talking about how their beauty is a limitation. Even though she phrased her answer well enough at the core it’s the same as others who discuss it.
Forgot model, but in an interview they discussed how they would make small alterations or carry themselves differently to fit the job. They would educate themselves on the trends and what the possibly employer was casting for. What that employer had for an image and history of designs.
So, it’s not that she was too pretty. It’s that she didn’t come off as the right model for the job.
That said, she is very beautiful, but not all that interesting.
I’m not honking either..
Yeah she’s gorgeous, but I just have to roll my eyes at every model who thinks they can just jump into acting (sort of like Emily R from yesterday’s post) without any real training. I mean….ok, I suppose you can but it’s kind of a slap in the face to classically trained actors who actually work for it and care about their craft, no?
Maybe I’m just being pissy, but I’m tired of models thinking he/she can be an actor. I know that traditionally, modeling can be a stepping stone to acting, but let’s not pretend that it’s always a seamless and successful transition.
On a superficial note, her husband is gorgeous and I can only imagine how stunning their kids will be when they’re grown.
Yep, kitten, that is what I came to say. He husband is stunning – pictures of her and her boys always make me smile. Beautiful family.
Me No Honky either… she is pretty but… ehgn to me… no edge.. like a butter knife… there is nothing exciting happening here… adorable family tho and good for her on that
Kitten
Models that transition to acting with no training is always painful to watch unless they have natural talent. The range is terrible. Kate Upton is another great example.
And I only think it’s a slap in the face to classically trained actors if they get casted together or the less experienced one beats out the trained one for a role.
Gary Oldman and Amber Heard another great example… Total slap to Gary.
@QQ
WORD. Absolutely beautiful face but no edge. I’d rather look like Natasha Poly <3
I completely agree, she was not too ‘pretty’, she was too ‘generic’, ‘commercial’, ‘conventional’ and ‘uninteresting’. To this day she is not a top editorial model. She is very attractive and pretty but that’s a different thing.
I think she’s talking about model castings, and how she was too commercial looking. You can be too pretty to be a top model. Christy Brinkley probably wouldn’t work much these days.
In the beginning Christy went through being told she was “Too FAT” at some of the modeling auditions, this happened sometimes on her casting calls, yup … until she become a household name, her first SportsIllustrated helped maker her even more well known and clients wanted Christy Brinkley and all the gorgeousness she is.
Not true. Characters who are not supposed to be pretty based on descriptions in books/scripts are usually played by beautiful actresses, because producers cast movies and writers do not. So, yeah,it’s a whole lot easier to be cast if you are pretty than if you are not. Go on internet script database, read some scripts, and look at all the “homely” roles that have gone to Portman/Johannsson/Adams/Lawrence.
Or look at book character casting throughout history. Scarlett O’Hera who is described as “not beautiful, but sticking” was played by eternally beautiful Vivian Leigh, ,”coltish, boyish” Jo March was played by ultra-feminine Winona Ryder, Lisbeth Salader (can’t remember book description, but she’s supposed to be ugly, anyway,) wasplayed by two, alien beauties, Rooney Mara and Noomi Raplace.
In other words: this chick is full of it.
I’ve read all those books and seen those movies, I feel that all those roles were properly cast, except for Mara. Vivien Leigh, with those high arched eyebrows was and is striking. There is no softness to her beauty, she’s fierce. Just like Scarlett. Noomi Rapace was perfect as Lisbeth, just perfect. As for Jo, her personality was tomboyish but she was still a woman. I always interpreted “coltish” as slim, elvish, playful – again more personality than looks. Plus with those large doe eyes, Winona seems like some sort of colt.
On the other hand, Doutzen looks like a grown up angel. I don’t think she could pass for any of those roles, she is far too objectively beautiful, rather than strikingly attractive for more unique features. Because she has such an angelic, soft look, I could see that being a huge hinderance to playing characters or getting castings that are looking for edge, hardness or something less “perfect.”
In my opinion, ALL of these women are absolutely beautiful, but as Kaiser pointed out, the current trend for models is to skew towards rougher, harder, stranger looks. Even Chanel uses chains and a cracked out Cara Delevigne.
@polonoscopy: Seems to me she was talking about modeling, not acting. She said in the beginning of her career she wasn’t booking jobs at casting calls because they told her she was too pretty.
She’s right, because the fashion industry is biased against “classically” beautiful faces, calling them boring. Tyra repeats this crap on her show.That’s a ridiculous belief because her kind of beauty is timeless. The faces they push now are trendy but not long-lasting. I’ve read so many online comments from people who long for the return of ’80s – early ’90s type supermodels, when classic beauty was in and models weren’t a size 0.
But then, the fashion industry doesn’t listen to its consumers. Fashion is not really art but commerce – always in search of the new (faces and designs) to generate continued profits. If it was timeless, they wouldn’t be discarding clothes quickly and calling it “so last season”.
Note that Doutzen stated that maybe she would “do movies” when asked where she’ll be in ten years. It’s reasonable to infer that she’s not pursuing an acting career right now, nor has she done so in the past.
I thinks she’s beautiful, with more refined features than Denise Richards. I’m also nostalgic for the ’80s to ’90s supermodels, the days when models were great at posing and looking fierce AND had beautiful, not “quirky” looks. They had personalities. It was aspirational. I feel it all changed when Kate Moss got big, the start of the trend for waif bodies with emotionless faces.
Apparently, Doutzen has been in a Dutch movie. I wasn’t aware of that and I don’t speak or understand Dutch.
I can only assume this movie career ten years from now refers to work in the U.S., as it’s reported she has taken acting classes in New York City for several years.
But…everything in Casting is done by a small committee of sorts. Just think of those Sony Emails….the casting process is a process which does shut some people out for being Too this, or too that and that’s also true of modelling. The process in modeling goes through several levels, from cacting director, to photographer, to designer and magazine photo editor and editor, to client.
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What you are forgetting about Vivien Leigh is she had some back dealing going on in helping her get the role. She had Laurence Olivier pushing from behind for her and David O’Selznicks brother who was her manager or agent at that point pushing from the other side….. But to her credit when she came in and did the screen test, she became the emotional embodiment of Scarlet O’hara, her energy jumped off the screen.
They studio had basically told another actress who looks similar to Vivien that she had the part, but that actress Paulette Goddard was living with Charlie Chaplin and Selznick didn’t think that would be a good image to put out.
Vivien although with Laurence Olivier was still under cover , it wasn’t well known in the US.
Love, love, love Vivien Leigh as Scarlett, one of my favourite film characters.
Lisbeth wasn’t described as ugly in the books. She was very skinny (underweight), tomboyish, no breasts, looking like a child, but not ugly.
Rooney Mara was perfect for the role. Noomi didn’t look young enough imo.
As for Doutzen, she has a child-like face… not in a sense that she’s young looking but very innocent with her big eyes and full lips and blonde hair. I think that might restrict her choice of roles.
Loving this thread! …especially the Vivien Leigh tidbits. Anyways, the phenomenon of casting beautiful actors to play ugly characters is called “Adaptational Attractiveness” and it is very common.
The funny thing is when David O’Selznick first watched Vivien in a film in England with her in mind for Scarlett, he said NO she wasn’t right for the role of Scarlet.
He said she wasn’t firey enough, he didn’t see any sex appeal to her. ….but almost one or two years later when she screen tested ,it was undeniable that she was perfect for Scarlet. Then they were dazzled by her on screen magnetism and it was the screen test with Ashley’s character that help convince them just how Right she was. The fire she showed in that screen test with Ashley’s character was off the charts……
Vivien Leigh one of my favourite actresses. )
I remember reading Gone with the Wind when I was sixteen and being so intrigued when Mitchell described Scarlett O’Hara as ‘Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful but men seldom realized it,’. To me in real life these are often the most beautiful women, the ones who are not perfectly beautiful, but who have attractive, characteristic looks and a lot spirit and charm.
Doutzen, who is from my home country by the way, is very, very, very pretty and then… nothing. She seems a nice and down to earth girl, but no Scarlett O’Hara for sure.
Denise Richards 2.0.
Maybe this, no clue:
http://blindgossip.com/?p=69272#more-69272
That blind reads as Kendall Jenner or someone of the “reality fame” model type.
Oh and honk!
Thanks. I’m not good at these unless they’re blatantly obvious. Most of the K crew don’t register in my consciousness.
Sadly they are embedded in mind no matter how much brain bleach* I apply.
* by brain bleach I mean buckets of booze.
Definitely Kendull – the youngest ones (if not all) were homeschooled and it shows. Kim can barely write, her tweets are hilarious.
PLUS there was this thing where 2 Jenners were presenting something last year and one of them had problems reading from the screen
Gigi Hadid for the wim
She had always sounded quite well spoken to me (in interviews and such). I mean she obviously has an accent, but, even with English as a second language, she is very articulate. I’m just not seeing “bag of hammers” with this one. Who knows, though?
If you mean Doutzen then that’s definitely not her, she’s one of the highest paid models in the world, has been for years. The subject of the BI sounds like a newcomer.
Hahaha…”bag of hammers”. Love that turn of phrase!
yesssss^^^^
That’s what i just came on to comment – Denise Richards, totally!!!
I think she is indeed incredibly beautiful and her ‘problem’ is that she appears too gently or softly and may be for some specific modelling jobs she wasn’t appropriate.
I believe this because so many of the models out today are fugly or just plain. There use to be a time when they were striking/interesting while still beautiful. This made them uniquely beautiful and not conventionally attractive.
True. Those 90’s models were stunning.
She’s beautiful.
But Claudia Schiffer had always been accused of being too antiseptic but however she managed to evolve one of the most famous and admired supermodels.
So, Doutzen this isn’t that problematic.
I’ll give her 10 honks out of 10! She is outrageously stunning….
HONK. She is so gorgeous, FIT, a pleasure to read about, married to a guy named Sunnery…what’s not to love??
She is really athletic looking. I’ve always dug that about her. And Sunnery? Wow! That is a great name
Love her! And her boy is sooo cute!
She’s so beautiful, my favourite model too. Also seems so down to earth and like a wonderful mother to her 2 children.
She is very beautiful but I must say I’m quite tired of models wanting to act after their modeling days are over. Acting should be about more that just looking a certain way and especially about simply being beautiful. Can she act? Has she gone to acting school?
E too, but sadly in Hollywood beauty is far more important than talent.
She’s already starred in a couple of Dutch movies, but no idea if it was successful. I don’t watch Dutch movies.
YES! Posted the same above before I scrolled down and saw your comment.
It should be, but is it? there are many actresses who aren’t talented, but pretty. I get your point, but unfortunately, looks matter more than talent, if you look at average starlets.
She does remind me of a young Denise Richards. Denise, when she was young, was so breathtakingly beautiful. Her face was just so interesting with the thick dark eyebrows and thick dark lashes and gorgeous light eyes and naturally full kind of duck lips in a good way (not plumped up fake-looking lips), and she had a beautiful deep skin tone. I remember watching an old movie on
TV from when she was younger and realizing how striking she was. And she was fit looking in a natural way.
She’s still beautiful without plastic surgery, but the stress of Charley Sheen has led to too much weight loss making her face look gaunt and lined. A few pounds would really make her look fresher and younger.
This model does remind me of Denise when you look at this young modeling image of Denise below.
http://image.123tagged.com/images/d/denise_richards_9103.jpg
HONK!
She’s the best part of those Loreal adverts.
Honk. She is actually a beautiful model to me and looks great in her ads. She reminds me of what I expect a model to look like.
Honk honk! This – Doutzen is truly gorgeous, what we all expect real models to look like. She’s stunning when relaxing at the beach without makeup, whereas upstarts like Cara D require hours of styling to sulk on the red carpet.
Cara is a face that takes styling and makeup extremely well. It’s not about being commericial. Or about being this cookie cutter image a beauty. DK is cookie cutter. I agree her personality sets her apart, but it ends there. And i’m not going to sit down with her an have a beer. She has to sell things with her image.
And she’s kind of flat on that. You may not like Cara, but she transforms when styled and that makes her of greater value as a model.
Honk!
She’s so pretty and she seems very kind and gentle. I’ll bet she’s a nice person in real life.
🙂
HONK!
She looks like Denise Richards!
Those are some seriously blessed genes, good for her.
I don’t understand the appeal of Cara D , I know it’s mean to say but without makeup -yikes even sometimes with it – yikes. I was a bit shocked the first time I saw her in candid photos it was hard to believe she was a model.
That’s a first world problem if I ever saw one.
She is gorgeous, tho, I agree.
Definitely a first world problem. Don’t hate her because she’s beautiful.
Simple comment: about 10 years ago, I moved from Florida to England where I lived for nearly two years. I loved it. I loved everything about it except for, perhaps, how expensive everything was and – coming from Florida – how cold it was. But it was beautiful, the people were beautiful and if I were a millionaire, I would live there again in a heartbeat (although maybe not during the winter!) That said – one of the things that struck me (many things did, actually) is that the television programming over there is WAYYYY better. Nevermind the fact that, as an American, you quickly realize that 90% of what we see here in the States originated in the UK, but in the UK they tend to use “real” actors….and by that, I mean they use actors that are not “Hollywood pretty”. They look like regular people you would see on the street. And what was important to me about that is that because I wasn’t so distracted by their preternatural good looks, I was FAR FAR more invested in their characters. It just made for a better experience. As an aside, I would also like to add that the cliche about the food in Britain being bad is a crock. I LOVED the food there. Loved, loved, loved it.
I have never heard anyone articulate this idea before! I lived in various European countries for twelve years, and I absolutely agree with you. There is so much focus on the ‘pretty face’ and it really is distracting from the character. These faces are becoming bland to me. BTW, I miss the food so so much!
What I wouldn’t give for a Lincolnshire sausage or a Scottish silverside roast beef. And no – you can NOT make yorkies here the same way. 🙂
I have noticed this too. This also why I like European shows so much because they don’t look like they are artfully arranged to look like normal people, but look like someone I might see on the bus. Even the characters that are supposed to be hot look like normal, you might actually see them in the street kind of hot. Not the glossy magazine, perfectly tussled hair sort of hot that is normally seen on American t.v.
As an American Republican/conservative, I suppose I am supposed to fulfill my stereotype and wave a flag or something, but I adore Europe. Everything about it. The food, the history, the architecture, the art… it’s an entirely different head. My favorite book of all time is “A Year In Provence” by Peter Mayle. If you haven’t read it – BUY IT. READ IT. It’s a short read (one afternoon, if that) and you will be madly in love with life when you finish it. You will relax. Your perspective will change. You will say “eff it” to the whole no-carb life and you’ll dash down to your local Whole Foods and buy the most delectable breads and cheeses and wines and you will TASTE life and feel life. This book changed my world. I recommend it to everyone. It’ll take 2 hours of your life to read, but it will change your attitude forever.
@LaurieH: Thanks for the book recommendation. I will definitely check it out.
Jinni – I promise you will NOT regret it. The book will make you laugh, make you feel romantic, make you hungry for good food… it will make you long for a life that is so simple and un-American and wonderful and quiet. It really is a short read, but I absolutely promise you that when you finish the book and close the back cover, you will sigh and feel….. good.
Most Germans I know love American TV shows : D
When I lived in Germany I was so shocked as to how many American shoes are dubbed and enjoyed over there.
Also hilarious the voices used to dub.
Murder She Wrote had AL’s voice as a much younger woman. Like in her 20’s younger.
And yea. My host family would postpone a death to not miss an episode. 😀
This is one of the main reasons why I love Celebitchy. The commenters here are articulate, insightful, and have many interesting experiences they kindly share. Thank you, LaurieH, for the recommendations. If I ever get around to visiting the British Isles, I’ll make sure to try the sausage and roast beef. I already love the UK programs we get in the States.
She is beautiful, but so incredibly boring. No charisma what so ever. I enjoy looking at Cara D’s pictures much more.
I guess it’s better to be considered “too pretty” than “too ugly”
This reminds me of the Helena Bonham Carter/ Kathy Burke feud.
yes. imagine all the jobs she would not get if she was ugly.
getting turned down because of that is a lot better than “would you like to be in a movie?” “Of course! ” “good, we need hideously ugly people for a circus scene.”
LOL! Or: “You’d be perfect for the role of the monster. No makeup needed.”
She’s 30??? Oh my, I’d believe if someone’s told me she’s 20… And yeah, she does resemble Denise Richards. I just don’t understand the casting calls reject part. was that to work as a model or to be in movies?
I am around the same age and she looks textbook for age, albeit she is more beautiful than the average woman.
oh come on. of course you are going to lose out on certain jobs. Angelina Jolie will never be seen as the wallflower in a little city.
but you get so many other opportunities that ugly people dont get. you are even less likely to go to jail if you are pretty. people treat you better, they assume you are a better person because you are hot, you get free stuff, boring stories suddenly become interesting, you make people laugh with unfunny jokes etc.
beauty privilege is real and possible the best thing you can have in life. if you are ugly your face will keep people from loving you. i mean how sad is that?
its not a women only problem by the way, same goes for men and has nothing to do with sexual orientation. a heterosexual male boss will pay a good looking male more than an ugly one. Ted Bundy was always thought to be a cool guy because hey he MIGHT have murdered a few people but he is handsome, dont put him in jail!!!
I think there are a few drawbacks to being beautiful. Their problems aren’t taken seriously. It’s no guarantee of happiness, either. There are plenty of examples of unhappy beautiful people.
They do get a lot of catty jealousy from others who aren’t as pretty, but who ARE more insecure. I had a beautiful friend in college who was lovely on the inside, too. She got a lot of hate from random strangers who were threatened by her looks and the attention she got (and wasn’t even trying to get).
Also, beauty easily attracts others, and some of these people are bad news. A decent man would leave a beautiful woman alone if she rejected him. Sure, he would be hurt but would respect her space. An evil or manipulative man wouldn’t take no for an answer. He would try to take advantage of her, stalk her, or worse.
Yes, this happens to all kinds of people. What I’m saying is that it’s intensified for those whose looks get them attention wherever they go.
If you’re a classically beautiful women people assume you’re vapid and stupid. Tara Moss went from modelling to writing & publishing books; the Australian press assumed she had hired a ghostwriter or she was taking credit for someone’s writing. Although there are benefits to beauty privilege it doesn’t free a woman from the oppression of systematic misogyny. In same cases being beautiful can actually make one a target to intensified misogyny.
Sorry if this poorly worded, I’m super tired.
No, your post wasn’t poorly worded. You brought up a very important point: the myth that a beautiful woman is also a dumb woman. There’s a stupid quote – I can’t remember the fool who said it: “the intelligence of a woman is inversely proportional to her looks.” I’ve always hated that saying. First, because it’s not true. Second, because it has such a misogynistic tone.
It sucks that Tara had to deal with such attitudes. I hope those critics are eating their words now. We do live in a world that, throughout history, has decreed that a woman’s value to society is based foremost on her looks and on her ability to breed. Ugh, humanity still has a long way to go.
sure and there are also plenty white male homeless people.
pretty men also get taken less serious by the way, lots of comments on this very site show you that. so what, they still get 95% good stuff and 5% bad stuff. those poor beautiful people…
Yep. And to all those people who complain that beautiful people have problems, too!….of course, everyone has problems, but in your heart of hearts, would you rather be beautiful or ugly? I’m sure you would pick beautiful every single time.
Wow! It’s strange to see an actual model in a mag cover. I couldn’t remember what an actual model looks like anymore. Though I do not mind seeing Rihanna and Chloe Sevigny in fashion related events.
To me, she completely lacks charisma, and that’s far more important than having pretty features. Tons of young women have those. There’s also nothing unique about her beauty. Models like Christy Turlington, Tatjana Patitz, Kate Moss, or Carla Bruni had a very defined individuality. Doutzen comparedly comes over bland. She reminds me of a young Brigitte Bardot minus the personality.
I don’t think Kate Moss had much personality. She has her own fashion style. She has widely spaced eyes and great cheekbones, which translate well in photographs. But this is entirely surface. Plus, if you look at many of her photos, she gives the same face over and over. Not versatile to me. She has managed to forge a long career in a fickle industry that likes her somewhat alien features. Rather than take a chance on a talented lesser known model, they’re willing to Photoshop Kate’s face to death even though it’s really haggard from all her partying and drugging.
Anyway, I used to follow up on supermodels during the ’90s: reading their interviews, watching their talk show appearances. In those interviews, Kate was bland and hadn’t much to say. In some, she could barely speak with more than one sentence. Christy and Tatjana (who was as soft spoken as Doutzen) said interesting things when interviewed. Kate came across as blank. Maybe she’s different now.
Honk! Beautiful woman, great photoshoot.
She’s not a dime a Doutzen!
*chuckles*
She’s giving me Denise Richards vibes.
Honk for her and her beautiful son!
http://instagram.com/p/ysR0YGzVPp/?modal=true
She’s lovely… I have to laugh, though, at how she says “communication” is the key to her relationship with her husband, but that they’re together because their AGENTS talk all the time. Huh?
well that is communication 🙂 but yeah it sounds like “good sex is key to our relationship..he does the secretary and i do the pool boy.”
Another acting model. If that fails then perhaps singing?
I’d go straight to the vegetable patch.
honk.
She has acted in a few movies in her home country. However they are all in Dutch. She was so so – pretty lady in distress kind of thing.
Models, especially top models, have a longer shelf life these days. I remember Linda Evangelista work well into her 30’s and early 40’s (until she had her son). I’d say it is harder to last to 30 if you are an unknown. I had a cousin switch to commercial modeling at 24 because she hadn’t acquired enough work and was told to hang it up by a casting agent. She is over 30 now and doing quite well for herself as a commercial model. I think Doutzen will work well into her 30’s.
I agree withthe Denise Richards assessment. I was trying to think of who she reminded me of…thanks. Yes, she is beautiful. But if she was a good actress I think someone would have found it in their heart to cast her, Angeina has been in alot of movies, Doutzen. Try again.
I kind of get the too pretty thing, she fits in well for Victoria Secret, because their whole look is based around the girl next door. She just doesn’t look very high fashion to me, her face isn’t distinctive enough. I think when those people were turning her down for being too pretty they basically meant too bland.
Honk, love her!
I understand her ‘too pretty’ comment. She would have fit in with the glamourzone supermodels of the 80s/90s because as well as being photogenenic, beauty was also a must and boy were they beautiful, still are.
D came along at a time when Kate Moss had changed the fashion outlook to blandly pretty rather than beautifully pretty. Pretty much every model post 90s is blandly pretty, bordering on androgynous.
They are all forgettable, but D stands out precisely because she is pretty.
I agree with everything you wrote, particularly the part about Kate Moss.
Kate was the “anti-supermodel” in the mid ’90s. The supermodels became too powerful in the eyes of the industry’s powerbrokers (designers & editors). The supermodels had more influence and autonomy then and were as famous as actresses. The powers in charge made sure that phenomenon wouldn’t repeat by hiring younger models (less assertive, more naive) that they could control and who didn’t overshadow the clothes.
Not knowing much about her she seems like a very sensible and nice person. The fact that she’s been married to the same guy for a few years now and seems like a devoted mother too, helps.
Please don’t let Leo get ahold of this woman! She is way too beautiful to defile.
Leo wouldn’t be interested. She’s too old. And that was a knock on Leo not Doutzen.
She’s gorgeous, and when I think about what a model should look like, it would be her. Anyone who didn’t cast her because she is too beautiful was a complete moron.
She is breath-taking. There’s no way she could play an average woman or the girl next door w/out seriously transforming herself. Getting rejected for parts due to her beauty is very believable – with her – unlike Biel and that Sean woman.
I’m Dutch, and while I agree that Doutzen is very beautiful and also nice, she doesn’t have much of a personality and her Dutch voice is grating as hell. Not an actress’ voice. She never will be a successful actress, not even in HW, anyway, how many models became accomplished actresses? Well…exactly. And Christy Turlington she’s not either. She doesn’t have the brains, believe me.
She’s a sweet girl, but that’s about it. So a half honk, yes, she’s beautiful, but upstairs not much is happening. I prefer a model like Cara over her, she has a personality and has been training for acting too. And she’s also a smart cookie.
I also find it a bit simple minded that she’s like: Oh, I don’t know, maybe I’ll act in Oscar nominated movies in 10 years or I’ll have a farm. Just depends on what I decide to do, because both options are totally possible. Erm, noooo, they’re not. The farm of course is, as she has enough money to do that, but the big acting career is really a pipe dream.
I have to disagree. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with her dutch voice and saying there’s “not much happing upstairs” is just plain rude.
From the dutch and english interviews I’ve seen of her she seems to have a good head on her shoulders. And where did she say that she’ll act in Oscar nominated movies? She said it might happen and that she has the DREAM to work with a certain director. She never said that the dream will come true and certainly not that it will be easy.
She’s stunning, but her prettiness does mean she’s not the most versatile model. She’s great for VS, beauty campaigns, boring editorials etc. but the few times I’ve seen her in a more experimental or gritty spread she’s looked so out of place. She can’t transform herself like Cara. She’s not a very good model really, she’s just very, very beautiful. Contrary to popular opinion, there is actually more to modelling than being really really good-looking.
Honestly, I’ll always take interesting over pretty. Interesting lasts, pretty fades. Even looking at the supermodels of the 80’s and 90’s, you see that those with personality and more unique looks are still doing interesting editorial work while the more standard beauties are shilling for cheap make-up and skincare brands and haven’t gotten near high fashion for a good decade.
Lauren Hutton. Gorgeous but so interesting looking too.
I think sometimes in film, gorgeous good looks gets in the way of story. I find myself distracted by the stunning beauty of some actresses, so that I can’t believe they are who they are playing. Looking back, many of the best actresses ever weren’t usually very pretty – Streep, Bacall, Hepburn, crawford, and even further back. There. Have been beauties like E Taylor and Sophia Loren, but it seems for every beauty there is a fine actress much plainer. (And I’m talking serious actresses, not like “Charlie’s Angels” actresses.) so I can understand what she is saying.
I agree. Doutzen is very beautiful. Her face is perfect. But she is not my favorite model.
I don’t like her interviews. Sometimes she sounds so pretentious.
Looks like Denise Richards…
Maybe she got rejected because she has no acting talent at all? Beauty can totally be downplayed by make-up in movies. Reality-check please.
I think she was rejected for modelling jobs not acting or do I understand it wrong?
The movie thing only comes up in the “what will you do in 10 years question”. Before that she’s talking about modelling.
Oh, sorry, my bad. Did not read the entire article on the link. I thought the casting calls above referred to movies.
She is too beautiful for high fashion, she has an “easy beauty”. The only VS girl who looks “interesting” for high fashion is Behati Prinsloo.
I believe it. She’s too stunning for catalogue and too beautiful for HF.
She’s Denise Richards’s doppleganger….wow.
She’s pretty, but somehow boring. I mean, she’s conventionally aesthetically pleasing–very much so–but I just don’t get the hoopla. And yeah, enough with every model, singer, and whatever else thinking they’ll “just go act” next. Ugh.
She’s stunning. I like reading stories about fashion models and I’d much, much rather read about her (and see photos of her) than of Gigi Hadid, Cara Delevigne, Kendall Jenner, Hailey Baldwin.
I agree she’s really pretty. It gives me hope. I’ve been rejected as a model for being too beautiful. It’s weird isn’t being gorgeous what it’s about apparently not. There has to be a place really beautiful women can make it in entertainment besides porn. The industry is weird.