“For me, it’s all like a dream,” she says. On a morning when lightning lights the sky and rain is pouring, Vall hugs her grandmother. “We are very glad for Nadya and very worried.” “If Nadya makes a little money, we will build it,” he says. Before she leaves, her father shows off a series of unbuilt rooms designated for Vall and her siblings. When Vall is chosen by a Russian agency to go to Japan, she’s elated. “I was the person who hated it most,” she says on camera of her days on the catwalk. That’s what my eye is trained to see for Japan.”Īt a casting call in Siberia, Arbaugh asks would-be models their age and scrutinizes their hair, skin and weight. The business is obsessed with youth, especially my business in Japan. looks young, almost like a prepubescent girl. “The business of modeling is not something I feel necessarily passionate about,” Arbaugh says in the film. Rachel Blais, another model featured in the film, says Arbaugh “got a job with one of the top agencies in New York as a top booker.” “She wanted to be a whistle-blower in the beginning, but as the production progressed, she got deeper in the industry…and really pushed back against the film.” “ actually approached us with the idea for a film and that’s how we were made privy to that world,” Sabin says. A former model, Arbaugh scours the Siberian countryside for new faces to feed to her Japanese clients. Despite few similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry exists between the regions, facilitated by talent scouts such as Ashley Arbaugh. In “Girl Model,” scouts and agencies are complicit in advising their charges to tell prospective employers that they are 16.

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