Everyone thinks their own baby is cute, so maybe I’m looking at it through rose-colored glasses. But I would like to give it a try.
Anyone know what to do? Do I just call up a Honolulu modeling agency and say “Wanna take a look?”
Here’s some pictures (okay, maybe not some).
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/hubbardm/
I’m sorry. I know nothing about modelling babies.
But I just wanted to tell you, that is one beautiful baby! Such pretty eyes!
Usually, for me, I just glance at one or two baby pictures and I’ve had enough. A baby’s a baby, right? But I couldn’t stop flipping through your photo album. She is a very pretty baby.
Anyway, I’ll stop now so people with useful information can post. Good luck.
Cute, perhaps, bouncing and healthy certainly. (I checked out the 4 month photo.) Can’t help with the modelling at such a young age. Take him in to the shop when he’s not tired would be my insipid, unispired advice.
Oh, jeepers, you’re gonna hate me. “He” is a she!
Wow, she is a very cute baby. One thing to consider: How is she with strangers? Being a model means that a lot of people that she doesn’t know will be handling her. Is she easy-going enough to be okay with this, or will she cry and reach out for you?
Why?
Wow, there are cute babies and there are beautiful babies. That baby has the most beautiful eyes I’ve ever seen.
Just for fun, nothing more. I see billboards and posters from local companies, and we think “Imagine Anya on that”. She has no problems around other people and is quite the ham for the camera. But who knows how a 5-month-old would take it?
Plus, we can gravy-train her modeling career (ha HA!). 
Seriously, though, one thing makes me a little apprehensive, no one likes to be told “sorry, not what we’re looking for”.
You will need professional photos, which can run into a lot of money. You will also need a hyper-sensitive “bullshit detector” to be able to weed out the con artists in the modeling industry. You should never have to pay to submit photos. And, hardest of all (for you, now and possibly for her as she gets older) you have to get used to hearing “she’s not what we’re looking for” or “she’s a little overweight” or “can she wear contacts to change her eye color” or any number of other potentially hurtful comments.
Unfortunately, it’s common that an ad agency seeks a particular ‘look’ and rejects many possible models in the search for it.
HubZilla, I bookmarked your photo album when you linked to it in another thread. I check your site every once in a while for two reasons: first because my own child is a couple of months younger than yours and it’s nice to see what other kids did when they were my baby’s age, but most importantly I visit because your child is very beautiful and very photogenic. And yes, if she’s only half as pretty as she looks in those pictures she’s model material.
Crap, crap crap! I had to rejoin just ro respond to this.
No, no, no! You don’t need expensive photos for a baby. Babies change appearance every few weeks, so photos are useless. What agencies want is a baby who will behave well without his or her mother.
My creds. When my older daughter was born, my wife’s roommate in the hospital was an actress, and recommended that my wife bring in my daughter to some agents. She did, but we lived far enough away from New York so that she never worked. However when she was in fourth grade she went to an open audition at a manager’s office, got signed, and went on to do some commercials, an industrial, and had a continuing role on a TV show.
Her manager was a former child actor, and was very emphatic about ripoff artists. For a possible article, we even went to one of the fly by night “managers”, to see what their scam was.
Here it is - it is not a fee for submitting, but rather that they say the baby needs expensive pictures. They send you to someone who charge five times what the picture is worth, and kicks back some of the fee to the “manager”. The “manager” does send the picture in to agents, who look at them - but they’ll look at the picture if you send it in.
The sleazeball we went to claimed that he first signed a kid on the Cosby show. When we told this to our manager he laughed. It was true - but as soon as the parents of the kid found out what was really going on, they dumped the guy and signed with our manager.
Our daughter got her first job with photos our neighbor took. She did get headshots, but only after she worked, and we went to someone from a list our manager gave us. But babies don’t need them. Almost all babies are cute, but behaving in a shoot is far more important.
We did it in New York, but I doubt Hawaii is any different. There might not be enough work for agents, but photographers sometimes hire kids directly. You might try that also. There are books available with lists of legitimitate agents; you should check them out too.
Sorry for the rant, but when we were undercover, there were about eight babies and their parents, all told their babies were adorable, all about to get ripped off. It was all I could do not to shout “RUN!” So I’m doing it in advance, now.
Thanks, Voyager, I’ll give the photographer route a try.
Looks like her modeling career is off to an auspicious start. She entered her first Halloween contest:
http://starbulletin.com/2005/10/24/news/weekend.html
And the results?
www.dulcemichaelanya.com/kidsfest
She is adorable. I’d advise caution though. Many, if not most, of these model agency/baby pageant things are scams. If they ask for money up front, walk away, no matter how reasonable the explanation. If in doubt check w/ your local BBB, or your state Atty. General’s Consumer Affairs Office. Good luck.
She is a cutie. Happa (I’ve got three of my own)?
Yes, she’s hapa. Half-haole + half-Filipina.
Gawd she in that costume is just too cute… She’s so cute it makes me make all sorts of cooing noises at the screen, which always annoys me.
Seriously… Too damn cute!!