Moffy - The cross-eyed model!

It seems that now, more than ever, the fashion industry are desperate to find the next big model who's going to overtake the likes of Kate Moss, Giselse Bundchen and Cara Delevigne. Yet however, rather than looking for the conventionally ridiculous good looking, long luscious locks and glowing sunkissed skin of a model it seems that agencies are looking for that certain person who has an edge and total uniqueness against any other model out there..just like Storm modelling agencies newest recruit Moffy.

Moffy (real name Myfanwy) is a 19 year old girl from London who has strabismus, or crossed-eyes. Up until being scouted at a festival when she was 14, Moffy had never considered modelling as she felt she wouldn't fit in. However when she was old enough to do so, she was given the choice whether to have her eye fixed or leave it as it was, a choice that she went against as she felt going through with the operation would leave her untrue to herself.

She is fast becoming one of the most lust over models with her enviably beautiful unique face and Angelina Jolie pouted lips having just appeared on the cover of popular fashion magazine, POP.

Personally I feel that it is far more interesting to see a model who takes her biggest insecurity and turns it into her biggest virtue on the front cover of a magazine as it presents a feeling of pride and celebrates the idea of uniqueness and being different to seeing stereotypically beautiful models sprawled out provocatively on a page. I feel that it allows women to be presented in a way that empowers them instead of demeaning them as an object that is to be sort after by men. Following the success of Moffy, I hope that the rest of the industry will take note and come together by scouting even more women who are uncharacteristically beautiful in their own way.

Sourced from: http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/columns/bibby-sowray/TMG10460801/Meet-Moffy-the-cross-eyed-model.html