Everyone says your baby is beautiful. You think they're just being nice, but after even strangers insist, "Your should be a baby model," you start to think that maybe they're right. Give it to me straight: What are the chances of my child getting baby model work?
First, you need to understand that most jobs are in New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami. New York and Los Angeles are the centers of television, advertising, magazine, and catalog worlds, and Miami frequently hosts location shoots because of the good weather. There's work in other cities too, but mostly for local (rather than national) advertising campaigns.
Competition is fierce, but not impossible to overcome. Every day an agency gets a several-inches-high stack of letters and pictures from parents for a baby model. Out of each day's stack, they generally want to meet two or three kids for a baby model.
What makes a good baby model? Unlike supermodels, a baby model don't have to be perfect. But the word that comes up most often is "different." Of course, conventionally beautiful kids are in demand too as a baby model. But there are so many beautiful kids and they can't all be a baby model, right? This is true. Agencies also look for "spark," even in a baby model. A child's personality should be so great that it shines through in a picture. What Makes a Baby Model?