Hey kids, here’s a good lesson for today: 25-year-old Bridget Malcolm is one of the rising stars in the modeling world, but she wasn’t always so confident as she struggled with low self-esteem as a teenager. Yes, that’s right, no matter what you look like, you can feel self-conscious about a lot of things. It’s okay.
The Australian bombshell recently wrote a very candid blog post detailing her tumultuous early years before she became a famous Victoria’s Secret model. Honestly, it’s pretty refreshing and encouraging to read something like this.
Malcolm was first scouted for the modeling world as a shy and slightly awkward 14-year-old, but was told to wait a year until she began working professionally.
“We had to wait for my self-cut hair to grow out, and for my braces to come off,” she wrote.
At first, Malcolm felt like an outsider in the modeling world when she began working with designers and magazines.
“I have memories of sitting in my first meeting with my agency, bright red, feeling terrified that someone would talk to me,” she wrote. “The hardest part for me was the feeling that everyone else was in on something that I had no idea about. I couldn’t understand why I was modelling – everyone else around me seemed so much cooler and more confident.”
It took years for Malcolm to overcome her own anxieties and now she’s been walking for the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show since 2015. Aside from modeling, she now also works as an ambassador for David Jones and has been featured in Playboy, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.
