Signed copies fo Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model in BN Union Square

An excerpt from the book is on my website http://www.isobelladreams.com/

If you don't live in the NYC area check it out online, along with Almost 5'4" and my graphic novel Model Life:

http://productsearch.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.aspx?store=book&ATH=Isobella+Jade

And on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Isobella-Jade/e/B002Z5O9K0/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

I write for the underdogs, ~Isobella

Unstoppable in Stilettos: A Girl's Guide to Living Tall in a Small World

This lady rocks! And her book should be on your bookshelf, and I am talking to her next week on my radio show. Tiny is terrific! If you do not know who Lauren Ruotolo is, you should know, I hope you can check her book out here on BN.com and on Amazon.

Read this.

Standing 4 feet, 2 inches tall in flats (which she would never be caught dead in anyway), Lauren Ruotolo has spent her 33-ish years seeing the world from a unique angle—upward facing. She does not have dwarfism and she is not a paraplegic. Ruotolo was born with McCune-Albright Syndrome, a mysterious and rare genetic disease that researchers say occurs in anywhere between 1 in 100,000 and 1 in 1 million people. Some people with the condition have short legs due to deformities (Lauren does); and some experience early puberty and accelerated development (Lauren literally started developing at 9 months old, and went into menopause as a pre-teen); and bones can be easily broken and bruised (count her in), and therefore, they tend to go the wheelchair route. That was never going to be a road Lauren wanted to travel. And so far, so good!

Her preferred method of transportation, instead, include stiletto heels, and she utilizes them to do everything from hailing cabs in mid-town Manhattan and driving her white Audi convertible back to her childhood home and hairdresser parents on Long Island, to traipsing along the streets of exotic, ancient places like Greece and Turkey. But how does a girl who was originally predicted to live a wheel-chair bound existence become so adventurous, self-assured, successful, and . . . unflappable?

Instead of being hovered over by enabling parents, she was sent off to sleep away camp (and became a counselor later on). Instead of trailing behind the other kids in grade school in a game of freeze tag, she orchestrated it. Instead of following in the footsteps of her two stunning younger sisters, she became the role model big sister to them (and landed a hot boyfriend, to boot!) Today she is the Director of Entertainment Promotions for Hearst Magazines.


Lauren Ruotolo avoided the label of "disabled" through uniquely discovering who she really is and thus avoiding playing the label game. The little girl, with the big voice, Ruotolo is a combination of roaring personality, great mind, and humble soul, with a heart bigger than any shoe closet of Carrie Bradshaw. Part of that heart fills this book, as Ruotolo offers the entertaining evolution of a little girl in a big world to living tall in a small one, with advice and encouragement for any woman of any age who is still finding her way.

Lauren Ruotolo is the Director of Entertainment Promotions at Hearst Magazines in New York City, where she is responsible for developing strategic key partnerships with TV & cable networks, music labels, and movie studios. She recently helped produce E!'s Style Network show about the inner workings at Marie Claire fashion magazine and is working on two one-hour specials with Scripps Networks for Esquire and The Food Network magazine.

And guess what I will be chatting with her next week on my podcast radio show!


aim high, height isn't everything,

~Isobella

win by barely an inch sometimes

"Don't give up on what you want, feed any doubt you feel with knowing that what you want, you can have, with passion and endurance. Before I was a model & author I was a pretty damn good runner, during the last 100 meters I could not feel my little legs, but my will felt differently, there was still an ounce of energy inside and that I used, pushing, leaning my little body forward, to win by barely an inch sometimes." ~Isobella Jade

Today reading from Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model, podcast

Reading outloud is fun. Listen to me read from my new book "Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model." Short ...Stuff is on Amazon or Bn.com and I am sure you will like it, I wrote it for us short chicks :) ~isobella

Upcoming Show: 10/27/2010 11:30 AM

Listen here:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/isobellajade/2010/10/27/model-isobella-jade-reads-from-her-book-short-stuff-1

Being giraffe tall is not everything in modeling

And if you would like to submit for my Short and Stylish features on my blog, or be a featured petite model submit here:
http://www.petitemodelingtips.com/2010/10/coming-up-more-short-and-stylish.html

My memoir Almost 5'4" is on the Nook!

Yay, more eBook news, my original modeling memoir Almost 5'4" is also available for the NOOK! and Nook App on the iPhone. I am excited to share my modeling memoir as an eBook with you.
You can check it out here and also read a sample at BN.com Thanks ahead for checking out my books! ~Isobella

My memoir Almost 5'4" is available for the Kindle!

More book news: Here’s a link to my modeling memoir Almost 5'4" in the Kindle store for the US:
Almost 5'4"

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0048EKIZ6

whoo hoo! If you don't have a Kindle it is ok.

Available also for, Kindle for PC, Kindle for Mac,Kindle for iPad,Kindle for iPhone, Kindle for Android

Upcoming reading of my new book Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model

Reading outloud is fun. Listen to me read from my new book "Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model." Last time I read my landline phoned died and since I have got a new landline so hopefully this reading experience will kick more ass. :) if you are an aspiring model or a short girl and haven't checked out Short ...Stuff on Amazon or Bn.com I sure hope you, I wrote it for short chicks :) ~isobella

Upcoming Show: 10/27/2010 11:30 AM

Listen here:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/isobellajade/2010/10/27/model-isobella-jade-reads-from-her-book-short-stuff-1

Being giraffe tall is not everything in modeling

And if you would like to submit for my Short and Stylish features on my blog, or be a featured petite model submit here:
http://www.petitemodelingtips.com/2010/10/coming-up-more-short-and-stylish.html

eBook news for my memoir Almost 5'4"!

Hi Girls,

Guess what! I have eBook news!

As you know I self published my original modeling memoir Almost 5'4". And I am continuing to publish books under my own small press called Gamine Press. Well, my original memoir Almost 5'4" was submitted today for an eBook for the US for the Kindle through their digital text platform! Currently the book is under review and in a couple days should be ready to be bought and read as an eBook from Amazon. You can read it on your Kindle, or your iPhone app and iPad, iPod touch, and can be read on a Mac, PC, Blackberry, and Android-based devices. Yay!

Look for it in 48 hours or so.

Also today I submitted the book for the Nook through their Pubit program!
Here is what Almost 5'4" will look like on the Nook, cool huh!  I have the Nook app on my iPhone and do like it! I am excited to buy my own eBook! haha.

After I submitting Almost 5'4", the screen read:

Almost 5'4" is on its way!

Check back in 24-72 hours to see it available for sale on BN.com.  This is what the book will look like on the nook, kinda cute right!

Stay tuned!

Also soon I will have Short Stuff and my graphic novel Model Life up as ebooks as well towards the end of this year, ebooks here I come!

~Isobella

You can find my books on BN.com here, and Amazon here.

I created my eBook with http://www.ebookarchitects.com/


 

My new book Short Stuff in Barnes and Noble stores in NYC

YAY, if you live in the NYC area, my new book "Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model," is in Barnes and Noble stores! I hope you can pick one up. It is always exciting as an author to create from start to finish a book, from a Word document to the layout, sending it off to be bound, and seeing your book in a store. Hopefully more stores coming soon as well! Thank you ahead for buying Short Stuff ~isobella


P.s: you can also find Short Stuff on Amazon and BN.com. Height isn't everything in modeling, strive on!

Read an excerpt from Short Stuff here: http://www.petitemodelingtips.com/2010/10/excerpt-from-short-stuff-on-job-with-x.html

Where is the "get there" in your modeling pursuits?

Everyone has a different meaning of "getting there" and "making it."

And usually when you get there, you end up wanting more or sometimes the plan can change all together.

Focusing on your goals, and working hard for it doesn't always promise success, but do think it makes your chances higher.

Also it's important to slow down and look around, notice what you do have already as well,


~Isobella

New Video sharing my new book Short Stuff

Hi Girls, Enjoy this new video featuring Short Stuff!




And this is another video where I am reading the intro of Short Stuff, enjoy my public speaking and reading :)

An excerpt from Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model

An excerpt from Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model

which is now available on BN.com and Amazon.

Subject: Wednesday Easy Spirit shoot
NOTE: Model should have clean, neutral mani and pedi (i.e. Essie “Ballet Slippers” or similar) and legs should be shaven.

There was no casting for this job. Instead, my agent asked me to FedEx my portfolio up to White Plains, NY. I was living on Wall Street with my boyfriend and it was an easy walk to FedEx Kinko’s on Water Street. Sadly, the store is right across the street from where fashion model Ruslana Korshunova jumped to her death.

I hoped my portfolio wouldn’t get ruined in the mail or misplaced. There were tear sheets that showed I was becoming an established, professional model which took years to build inside it. Tear sheets that my little self worked so hard to get. Tear sheets that would be a royal pain in the ass to replace. I didn’t want to contact all those magazines and ask for back issues. It was a rough to not have my portfolio for that week.

I knew I had the job when my agent wrote me an email to get my address and zip code, because they will have a car pick me up and bring me to White Plains. The email also asked, “you don’t mind sharing with the makeup artist.” Of course I didn’t mind. Who would? A car picking me up? Awesome.

The makeup artist’s name was within the details for the shoot. I quickly Googled her and learned that she is a pro at eyebrows and loves to shape them. This made me a little nervous. I imagined her staring at my eyebrows, ripping them apart and thinking they were so ugly – massively in need of reshaping. That night I spent an hour tweezing and cleaning up any stray hairs.

~

I typically wouldn’t wear heels to a shoe modeling job, to save my feet from pain or any redness. But since it is a job for a shoe company under the Nine West umbrella, Easy Spirit, I decide wear some Nine West heels. Why not? I like to be a part of the team and environment.

I was the first person the car picked up. Then we went to the Lower East Side to pick up the makeup artist. She wasn’t in a good mood, or it seemed that way. The moment she plopped down in the seat she starting ranting about the world and what she hated about it. I just wanted to stay positive and I zoned her out. My pedicure looked great, I was about to shoot an ad campaign, and from what I understood I would be the only model. My foot and legs would run the show.

Finally, I saw a big white building in the distance and felt like we were approaching OZ. Good, I couldn’t wait for some coffee. However, we couldn’t get in since the marketing assistant hasn’t arrived yet. I really needed to use the bathroom a well.

After a few tries calling the office, we get buzzed in. There is a huge rack of clothing waiting for me inside the studio room, and the stylist is organizing it.

We do introductions. I meet the photographer, his assistants, the art director, the stylist, and a few other random helpers. It’s always kind of weird when everyone greets you, especially when you know all they’re interested in is your feet. It makes you feel important, but also a bit self-conscious as they stare at every toenail.

Afterwards, I run to the bathroom. Then I take off my heels and put on my comfy sandals, and become model-ready.

The makeup artist sets up in front of a table with a mirror, and I sit in front of her as she lotions my legs and feet.

I notice that there is a computer near the set, which I like, so that I can see what the shots look like while we are shooting.

Today I will jump up and down in fitness shoes, lie in a man-made sandbox, sit on a fake seawall, and model ten different shoes and a handbag.

Things were going well – the lighting was good, and my foot looked nice in the shoe. I had been sitting on the seawall with my legs crossed. But then the art director and photographer were stumped on the pose for the next shot so I suggested something different. I stood up, leaned my butt against the seawall and put one of my shoes against it, while keeping my other leg down. They liked it.

Side note: Models should be perceptive. Most of the time, as the model, you are not involved with the creative process at all. You just need to be natural and quick to understand the shot, —modeling involves a lot of listening. However, when the time is right I think having a creative side can be one of the greatest assets a model can have. It’s important to work as a team with the photographer to accomplish a creative shot. Not just being a model that shows up.

At lunch I found out that the photographer wanted to publish a book. I figure everyone does and we talked about publishing for a bit. I joked that I could eat as much as I want as long as it doesn't go to my feet.

Then we started shooting again.

Sand was a big part of this job since the images were for a spring and summer campaign. Lying in the sand, in a flowered sundress and a gold sandal, I felt like I was at a real beach. I angled my legs to make them look longer and the summer sandal looked flirty.

The day was almost done. Soon I’d be able to say that I had shot a whole shoe campaign myself.

During the next weeks, I kept checking the website to see when the images would appear and I ordered myself a few catalogs from the website.

~

It was pretty awesome to see my feet and legs in the large window displays at the Easy Spirit stores and in shoe sections in department stores – even at Macy’s in Herald Square. They were seen by millions of people. These images prove once again that a little model can do big things.

 (Isobella Jade TM)

You can find the book on Amazon here and also on Barnes and Noble's website here.

P.s: I look forward to seeing you at the book party in NYC on October 14th! The scoop on the party is here.

Short Stuff book party this week in NYC! models of all sizes welcome!

THIS WEEK!!

Join model and author Isobella Jade for a book signing and model party for models all sizes for her new book signing for her new book!

“Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model”

Thursday, October 14, 2010, 6:30pm-9pm.

Gaslight Lounge, 400 W. 14th Street (on the corner of 14th Street and 9th Avenue.) Meatpacking District

Subway: A,C,E, or L to 14th Street and 8th Avenue, then walk West to 9th Avenue.

Now, petite model Isobella Jade publishes her third book, Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model. Isobella shares her real day in the life adventures of being a model in this brand new collection of modeling stories from on-the-job experiences with Marshalls, Victoria's Secret, Macy's, Easy Spirit and other modeling jobs that took place after writing her memoir Almost 5'4". Short Stuff is also part “modeling tips for short chicks.” Isobella will be signing books and celebrating how girls of all sizes can work in the industry. If you are an aspiring model you can bring your photos and chat with Isobella about how short girls can use what they do have to get ahead and work in the industry. Or if you want to learn about how modeling is for more than just the tall giraffes, you will enjoy this event. All heights are welcome.


"short is sexy, tiny is terrific and petite is perfectly phenomenal!! height isn't everything when you focus on ALL that you are and ALL that you do have, we are really measured by ALL we do have and put to use. :) cheers! petite pride," ~isobella jade

Last night saw the movie Secretariat

Last night saw the movie Secretariat, I liked how it was about the will to run, take a risk and chance and not having regrets. How can I relate this to your modeling pursuits, well, you might not win the Triple Crown like Secretariat, or get booked for three modeling jobs in a row but it is all about letting yourself run, letting yourself have the chance for your success, believing you can, and being prepared for success.


It is rare to win every race in a row as a horse, especially with different lengths to run, and in terms of modeling it is rare to book all the castings you go attend, you might go to 100 castings and only book 3 jobs, but it is the will to try and not giving up, that leads to opportunity, self grow, and the feeling of success.

~Isobella




(TM Isobella Jade)

Today, Isobella Jade reads from her book Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model

10/6/2010

12 PM EST

Listen to the live show here or the archive anytime:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/isobellajade/2010/10/06/isobella-jade-reads-from-her-book-short-stuff

Model and author Isobella Jade has been the tiniest model in NYC for many years, you know her modeling memoir Almost 5'4" and her graphic novel Model Life, and she publishes her third book. In this segment, Isobella will read from her new book, "Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model." Isobella shares her real day in the life adventures of being a model in this brand new collection of modeling stories from on-the-job experiences with Marshalls, Victoria's Secret, Macy's, Easy Spirit and other modeling jobs that took place after writing her memoir Almost 5'4". Short Stuff is also part “modeling tips for short chicks.” Isobella will be signing books and celebrating how girls of all sizes can work in the industry.

If you are an aspiring model you can bring your photos and chat with Isobella about how short girls can use what they do have to get ahead and work in the industry. Or if you want to learn about how modeling is for more than just the tall giraffes, you will enjoy this event. All heights are welcome.

The book is on Amazon and BN.com.

Do you live in NYC area? Join model and author Isobella Jade for a book signing and party to celebrate models of all sizes and her new book: “Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model”

Thursday, October 14, 2010, 6:30pm-9pm. Gaslight Lounge, 400 W. 14th Street (on the corner of 14th Street and 9th Avenue.) Meatpacking District

Subway: A,C,E, or L to 14th Street and 8th Avenue, then walk West to 9th Avenue.

Favorite little things: I saw on Oprah Einstein the tiniest horse!

Do you who Einstein is? Not Albert! I am talking about the tiny horse! The tiniest horse ever!
I saw him on Oprah yesterday and took a pic with my iPhone! So cute. I want to meet Einstein one day!

Had a great time at the Self Publishing Book Expo today

Had a great time at the Self Publishing Book Expo today, there are so many choices when it comes to writing and publishing books, there are even way more choices today than 3 years ago and mainly I think people who want to be authors should consider becoming publishers because it is the now and the future. I have my own press Gamine Press which I publish under and I have worked with large and small publishers and self published as well through BookSurge (now CreateSpace). I know one thing never changes no matter how you publish, there are MANY choices now,  which is a good thing, but means there is a lot more to think about, and more roles for an author to take on...the most important: you are your best marketer.

These are the authors I chatted with today on a panel:
Alisa Fleming http://www.godairyfree.org/
Randy Kearse: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/10/nyregion/10books.html


Great stuff.

Join model and author Isobella Jade for a book signing in NYC for Short Stuff

Hey Girls, I am having a book signing coming up for my new book Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model, and I wanted to share the scoop, if you live in the NYC area, I hope to see you there! ~Isobella

Join model and author Isobella Jade for a book signing and model party for models all sizes for her new book:

“Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model”

Thursday, October 14, 2010, 6:30pm-9pm.

Gaslight Lounge, 400 W. 14th Street (on the corner of 14th Street and 9th Avenue.) Meatpacking District

Subway: A,C,E, or L to 14th Street and 8th Avenue, then walk West to 9th Avenue.

You know her as one of the tiniest working models out there. You also know her as the author of the graphic novel Model Life, and as the author who wrote her memoir Almost 5'4" at the Apple Store.

Now, petite model Isobella Jade publishes her third book, Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model. Isobella shares her real day in the life adventures of being a model in this brand new collection of modeling stories from on-the-job experiences with Marshalls, Victoria's Secret, Macy's, Easy Spirit and other modeling jobs that took place after writing her memoir Almost 5'4". Short Stuff is also part “modeling tips for short chicks.” Isobella will be signing books and celebrating how girls of all sizes can work in the industry. If you are an aspiring model you can bring your photos and chat with Isobella about how short girls can use what they do have to get ahead and work in the industry. Or if you want to learn about how modeling is for more than just the tall giraffes, you will enjoy this event. All heights are welcome.

A book signing to celebrate that tiny is terrific.

Here is the event info on Facebook
 :)

it’s one thing to be short; and that it’s another to be short-sighted.

How high heels, accepting reality, hard work and looking in the mirror helped to make me a model.

Maybe one day I'll meet Kate Moss, I bet she'd be a lot taller than me.  But being pint-size hasn't meants I can work with great brands and magazines, go to castings at Hearst, Conde Nast and stand in line with the lank giraffe models.  I stand next to them all the time. My height is obvious. Or lack of. But normally at my castings I ask myself "what are THEY doing here?"  Because it is a casting typically for my body parts.

I've found a way into the modeling industry through parts modeling, and over the years I have worked with great brands and magazines, you may have seen my foot in Macy's on a huge wall near the Easy Spirit shoes? You may have seen my hands in Bon Appetit magazine, or my legs in the Victoria's Secret catalog?

I put to use what I do have. But putting to use what I do have involves putting away the fantasy.  The thought of being on the runway, working with fashion modeling agencies, being taken care of in this industry. I could work as a model once I accepted and noticed the truths of the short girl. Print modeling is the area to pursue, it is the area of modeling where every day looking people and attractive people with spunk and personality model lifestyle products. It welcomes all types because the print modeling world works off the products and services that all types of people use and buy.  As great as this sounds print modeling is being a lone solider most of the time. It is working mostly non-exclusive with agencies and often being more of your own agent than anyone. It involves showing up to castings because you have the will to try, and want to, not because someone is your cheerleader and preparing you for the casting or job. It is making your own comp cards, marketing them to the right agencies, growing your portfolio, seeking out your own modeling work, gaining tearsheets, hunting for them, ripping them out of magazines carefully, letting each lead to the next. It is a process of years. It is like starting a little business of yourself and assets. But if you market yourself properly with professional photos, the right marketing mindset, and the ambition and availability to try, you can get yourself some work as a model. I don't care how tall you are. Height is not everything in the modeling world. But you have to see it that way and act upon it that way. 

The more you notice about yourself, your assets, the better. I talk about this in my new book Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model, and I talk about the hustle, the day in the life on the job working with brands and magazines, going to castings, and putting yourself and your assets out there in the right ways, to the right people, and opportunities.

I think noticing yourself is the most important thing you can do for yourself.  In any pursuit, passion or career, or life. So I might not be super tall, but I have great skin, so I might not be able to get in the door with Ford, Elite, etc, but there are MANY print agencies out there, actually many more print agencies than fashion agencies, it's just that the media only talks about fashion.

You gotta notice yourself and work with what you've got!  I wear heels, I love heels, but I have become over the years more comfortable with my own height, or.... my natural height in riding boots which only gives me about an inch or 2 more. As an author I promote the short chicks and I have become more comfortable with saying, Yes I am short. I am most happy in heels, but I know I am the shortest one in the room, usually even with heels on!

I wear super high heels at events, and even in meetings, running around, sometimes at certain castings, but I am not being hired for my height. I am being hired for my other assets, my energy, my smile, my hands, my body, even my legs, and having a nice even skin tone has helped.

For my modeling photos I have learned to stretch my body, to arch, to  naturally and in a pretty way  work my limbs to appear longer in photos, and here are tips on that, but I don't market myself as anything that I am not. I don't try to be a fashion model, I am not one. Fashion is an industry based on measurement, but I still have used my legs in modeling, alot! Especially with shoe modeling my legs are often and always in the shot, working the show, the angle, my legs to look a bit longer for photography and marketing sake for the product campaign, etc.  

I also have looked in the mirror alot, I still do, and study my body. How it moves, what it looks like what I move a certain way angle, I will sometimes stand naked infront of the mirror or in a bikini and just watch my body, because for castings for body and parts modeling, it is good to know my body, ex: how my arm changes when I move it a certain way. I like to see the mirror's perspective because THAT is the camera's perspective.

Sure having a nice body and skin tone has been helpful but skin is not everything in modeling, and modeling is more about lifestyle than anything. Sure there is the glamour, fantasy in fashion which is fun to observe, and enjoy looking at, but that is a small percent of the photo shoots, campaigns and production that goes into the marketing and advertising worlds of selling products and models holding the product or using it.  Most models are not supermodels, most are print models who have personality to help sell a products image. They are modeling accessories, technology, skincare, beauty, or for products in the areas of fitness, health, home goods, cars, beverages, food, oh yes coffee, and in the tampon commercials! Look around your house. Each item you own was most likely marketed to you by a model who was not a fashion model.

On this blog, soon, I am going to be showing you day in the life images that I see throughout my own day that represent "print modeling" and "commercial print models."  An ad on a bus, in a magazine, in a store window.
Showing you that print modeling is alive and moving and accepts all ages, colors, shapes and sizes. You just have to notice it.

Something that is also good to notice and accept is the reality. Print models can make nice money, but print models are not jet set typically. Print models can model until they are grandmothers, but that doesn't mean they will model every single day and be sent on 10 castings a day. Print models still wait 30-60 days to get paid from a job. Print models are marketing their personality and other assets beyond height mostly. Print models experience a more hands-on pursuit. Print models are everywhere you look.

This is how I end the book Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model:

                                                  It’s OK to be short. But not short-sighted.

“I only know I am short when I stand next to something tall.”

~Isobella Jade

I know that it’s one thing to be short; and that it’s another to be short-sighted. I might not be a tall supermodel strutting her stuff on the catwalk, or posing in high fashion clothing for high fashion magazines – but that’s not everything in modeling.

Remember, striving as a modeling isn't about just knowing what you want to model, it is about knowing what you’re good for in modeling – knowing where you can realistically find opportunity and chasing it. Make sure you’re considering all you COULD DO, not just what you may not be tall enough to do. To be successful as a model it really takes a marketing mindset, a perceptive eye, knowing what is marketable about yourself, and being ambitiously realistic. Notice how I said nothing about height; it just takes enough will to try in the right ways.

I love surprising people and the looks on people’s faces when they meet me and ask, “But you’re so short. I thought all models were tall?”

I usually tell them with some sass in my voice, “Height isn’t everything in modeling when you focus on the other assets you’ve got.” Not matter your height, aim high, because the higher you aim— truly the more you get!

Isobella Jade



New book: Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model is due in October

Hi Girls,

I am excited to share with you the cover of my new book called:

"Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model"

It’s a new collection of modeling stories from on-the-job experiences with Marshalls, Victoria's Secret, Macy's, Easy Spirit and other modeling jobs that took place after writing my memoir Almost 5'4". 

Also it’s also part “modeling tips for short chicks,” which was inspired by You, my blog readers and online readers, and my listeners of my podcast radio show www.blogtalkradio.com/isobellajade.
 
Short Stuff is due: October 12th, 2010, of course you can pre-order if you wish! :)

You can find it online here:  http://www.amazon.com/Short-Stuff-job-x-small-model/dp/061531743X/ref=sr_1_4?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285520301&sr=8-4


And here: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Short-Stuff/Isobella-Jade/e/9780615317434/?itm=3&USRI=Isobella+Jade 

(cover images will be on those sites soon)

If you have enjoyed my blog then I know you will enjoy this book! I look forward to sharing it with you :)

Aim high and always try!

Isobella

Five Steps to get ahead as a Short Model podcast

Hey Girls,  Back to my podcast! Tomorrow morning reading some tips from my upcoming book Short Stuff,-which involves short stories from on the job modeling experiences and also tips for models of all sizes, due in October. Tune in if you can to the live show which shares Five Steps to get ahead as a Short Model.

~isobella

Tune into the segment here:
Thursday 9/23/2010
10:30 AM EST

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/isobellajade/2010/09/23/five-steps-to-get-ahead-as-a-short-model-from-book-short-stuff





(Isobella Jade TM)

The best honeymoon ever!

Hi Girls,

I wanted to share some pics from my honeymoon!  Just got back Sunday. For our honeymoon we went to Italy, Tuscany for 2 weeks! But we saw a lot!! We went to the Greve in Chianti wine festival and it was really fun discovering local wines that are not in the US and chatting with the vineyard owners, we stayed in a villa in Panzano called Villa le Barone, SO NICE, and I love Tuscany!

We also really ENJOYED Florence-firenze, walking the streets reminded me of NYC, & we drove to Pisa's Leaning Tower & Duomo, which were amazing, and we stayed in Siena for 6 days and Siena's Duomo was so eye-popping we went twice! & throughout the trip we took day trips to the sweet medieval towns Montipulciano & Lucca & Arezzo & the medieval Manhattan called San Gimignano, and went to Portofino, at the sea, for a night was so, so beautiful.  Also Italy is a lot more hilly that I thought it was. You'd drive through a tunnel, throught a hill often,--also the towns on hills were amazing, you'd drive on a major curvy hill and it would be like driving near a cliff, but the cliff was so beautiful, (Portofino).

We also went to Grosseto and went to the beach called Castiglione della pescia, and also Talomone was SO beautiful, the water is so clear and it is so untouched and raw. We also went to St. Stefano which reminded me of a more commercial Portfofino.

I think the pics here will explain the fun we had. Being in Italy you can't help but feel the culture, absorb the art, sit in awe, appreciate the history (I kept thinking, while looking at the art and paintings and skylines of Italy, about how nothing in America that was built which we admire now as historic was even conceptualized yet, imagine art and buildings, creations from the year 1000 or 1200?), the beauty of Italy will blow you away and the stories found in each town and city. I remember sitting in a lawn chair in Chianti at Villa le Barone and the stars, omg, it was unreal, like a dream how clear the stars were, how bright, how many!  Two nights we looked at the stars in Chianti during our stay and it was very memorable for us. 

We ate so much gelato and pasta, pork, seafood, wine!  Just don't try to eat between the hours of 2 or 5pm, it will be tough! Many doors close between those hours, so be prepared to eat late, 7-9ish. And don't mind the repeat of outfits, it was 2 weeks of not washing clothing and you will see some repeats of outfits, I hope you like the brown scarf I bought in Florence for 5 euro, love! I will share more about the cute fashion finds from Italy that I discovered and love. Especially Intimissimi lingerie which I first boughtin Rome and now it is a treat and special thing to get when I visit Italy always.  Here are some pictures from the start of the trip. I will share more throughout this week. 

If you click the image it should go bigger. ciao bella  ~Isobella

Actually, before Italy, we got to spend a few hours in Paris, we had a 7 hour layover!

Paris!

Florence!

The cathedral!

On top of the Giotto's bell tower, which is next to the The cathedral, - I climbed this in heels! See here.

Even stopped by a LUSH in Florence, bought Angels on bare skin, to use on the trip. 

Tuscany!

More pics to come!

Petite Modeling Tips and Stylish Short Chicks!

Hey Girls!

I am back from 2 weeks in Italy! Before I share some pictures from that amazing time, I wanted to make sure you have been checking out the Short and Stylish features on my blog www.PetiteModelingtips.com that have been up while I was in Italy and I hope you have enjoyed the features!  Here are the previous features and if you'd like to submit, please do! I hope it becomes an on-going-feature, to submit email your photo to me at petitepride@yahoo.com, and share your name, height, where you're from, what you are wearing and how you remain happy about your stylish self in your own unique way, despite your height! Fashion might not love the short chicks, but we can still create our own path, and we can still like what we wear with some hustle and creativity and the will to work what we've got! :) ~Isobella

Here I am wearing a Tocca sweater, which I shrunk by accident in the wash, but it turns out, it fits better now! :)

http://www.petitemodelingtips.com/2010/09/short-and-stylish-featuring-devina.html

http://www.petitemodelingtips.com/2010/09/short-and-stylish-featuring-marie.html

http://www.petitemodelingtips.com/2010/09/short-and-stylish-featuring-suzanne.html

http://www.petitemodelingtips.com/2010/09/short-and-stylish-featuring-arideonne.html

http://www.petitemodelingtips.com/2010/09/short-and-stylish-featuring-shalayna.html

More to come!

A birthday wish for my self, reflecting in this past year

To Myself,

Happy Birthday girl, you should be proud of yourself. Since your last birthday your graphic novel Model Life came out, Almost 5'4" came out in the UK, and soon your third book Short Stuff will be out and you got engaged last fall and married this summer. It's hard to sit still sometimes, and I know there are actually 3 book projects you'd like to put out in the coming year but pace yourself and give yourself a chance to breath sometimes.

This year you also were assured that you can research and research, find the right editors and pitch, pitch and pitch a book to publishers, and when you get rejection it feels like wasted time spent, seriously, so although you will pitch publishers still for certain concepts, a book deal is not your end-goal, it's putting out great stuff that you believe in and are passionate about. Continue to create and write and share, and if you self-publish it that isn't a big deal, you can self market, you've done it and done a really great job before. Stay in the drivers seat. Continue to believe in what you want and yourself.

Continue to strive to work with brands you like and want to work with, not just for modeling though, but to bring together brands with your readership as well.

This year the amount of letters from girls who read your blogs, watch your videos, listen to your podcast and hang with you through social media has really been inspiring and proof and even more reason to create and put it out there.

To striving, chasing and giving yourself a chance for many more years,
~Isobella

7 pm TODAY Long Live Short Models and Stuff Stuff on my Model Talk Radio

Tomorrow is my birthday, September 3rd, and tomorrow I also fly to Italy for a two week honeymoon with my man.

When I return the promotion for my third book "Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model" begins.

On this segment I will be sharing insight on the journey of building ones self as a model and author, and tips on staying inspired, overcoming the doubt and the power of self promotion.

All I want for my birthday is, if you haven't yet, to check out my books; my modeling memoir called Almost 5'4" and my graphic novel "Model Life: The Journey of a Pint-Size Fashion Warrior",  they are both on Amazon and BN.com.

Also starting next week, even though I am out of town I have arranged for Short&Stylish to start! The posts will start next week!

You can submit for a Short&Stylish feature by emailing me your photo, where you live, your height and how you stay stylish despite your height and lack of mass retail for petite sizes to petitepride@yahoo.com

Check out the segment here live at 7pm EST Today or keep in mind this segment... will run for 2 weeks while I am in Italy so you can catch the archive.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/isobellajade/2010/09/02/long-live-short-models-and-stuff-stuff

Aim high, strive on, and getting older means having more memories so use each day wisely!
~Isobella

To Lilit Marcus I'd rather be homeless than work a 9-5

I don't work a 9-5 but I work all freaking day, working for yourself is being your own damn assistant alot! I know what it is like to be your own assistant and carry signage, huge signage across the West Side Highway and almost bust your ass, I know what it is like to wait an hour at the post office and smell the guy in front of you who has terrible body ordors, and staying up past midnight every night working so hard to make a personal deadline that your brain is so freaking fried that thinking is hard to think about, however I am lucky because I am not working a 9-5 and I can't get fired because I surely would if I was, and if I get pissed or upset really I am the boss to hate so I just take a 5 minute break on the couch and maybe even cry and then... after some swearing, I'll fix my mascara and carry on. Anyways was at Lilit Marcus @saveassistants Book Party tonight for her book called Save the Assistants, and gave her my "Model Life" graphic novel. I hope she likes it. Check her book out! Click the title above,  clicking to look inside won't work.

And by the way, I was once living out of a suitcase by choice because I'd rather hustle than work a 9-5, so although I am not homeless anymore, I would rather be homeless again than ever work wake up every day just for my lunch break that only lasts about 10 minutes. If you do work a 9-5 and you are handling it well then that's awesome, if you do then I hope you strive to make sure it is something that you love to do, that raising your heartbeat and makes you actually think, however sitting in one place all day makes me have ants in my pants, I have a hard time sitting still, faxing, and taking orders!

~Isobella