Many Fashion Models are just teenagers far from home, in some cases earning as much in a day as their poor families back in Russia and Eastern Europe do in a month. As a result, many fear speaking out about sexual harassment, unscrupulous booking agencies, demands to alter their bodies, lack of backstage privacy and punishing stretches with little sleep.

Fashion Models not only have pretty faces and pretty well-tailored dresses. They're always overworked, underfed and underage independent cont...