Kate Upton Joins William Morris Endeavor & Yes, She Will Still Model
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There are times to not take headlines very seriously and the shout outs that Kate Upton is leaving modeling for acting is a good example. The fact that Kate Upton has left IMG Models to cozy up with its owner William Morris Endeavor only reinforces the smart-girl attitude that the new face of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics has brought to her career development.
Kate Upton knows that she has big brand potential. Having left in the dust all her naysayers in the fashion industry, Kate has major career ambitions and they touch down in multiple endeavors. Can she sing?
William Morris Endeavor represents Hollywood and music clients that include Steven Spielberg, Adele, Alicia Keys, Bruno Mars and John Legend. With the IMG acquisition, Tayor Swift and Justin Timberlake came onboard. Yes, IMG had its own entertainment division, although it was better known in the fashion world as a modeling agency. Among athletes, William Morris represents Serena Williams.
Kate Upton will be managed by Rick Yorn, who also manages her ‘The Other Woman’ co-star Cameron Diaz. Like Kate, Diaz has always marched to her own outspoken drum beat.
Kate Upton for Bobbi Brown Holiday 2014 campaignMany bloggers and fashionistas weren’t kind at all to Kate Upton when she rocked to fame with her CatDaddy video. A couple years later, Upton, now 22, is one of the youngest celebrities to make it to the Forbes Most Powerful Celebrities List, where she joined Gisele Bundchen — that other ‘footballers wife’ and Kate Moss. Forbes estimated Upton’s earning at $7 million.
Earlier this year, Kate was interviewed by Details Magazine, where ‘The Talks’ revealed a lack of savvy about Kate’s career to date. Details questioned her:
Is your voice also the reason why you have stayed away from being photographed naked? Being shot nude by great fashion photographers is very common among famous models like Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Lara Stone.
Kate answers coyly:
For me those photos are art. Your body is art, your body is beautiful, and to be photographed in that way is amazing and it’s received in a very positive way. But with social media and the Internet and not so great blogs and the attention like that, I don’t think that my pictures would be received in the way that I’d want them to be received. That’s why I’ve stayed away from them. I really appreciate those photos and I think those women are beautiful, but I think social media and the Internet has prevented me from putting myself out there like that.
The only problem with Kate Upton’s answer — which was dead on in advance of the recent leak of her Internet iCloud hacking — is that Kate Upton has already posed nude, lensed by Sebastian Faena in a beautiful editorial for Muse Magazine that AOC posted in February 2014.
Granted, Kate also wears clothes in many of the Sebastian Faena shots. AOC is a Kate Upton backer from the first time she hit the fashion industry, rising to an ardent defense of her when Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show stylist Sophia Neophitou called Upton ‘a Page 3 girl’ with too-blond heir and the kind of face that anyone with enough money can go out and buy.’
Here’s a toast to our girl Kate Upton who is smiling all the way to the bank and will have just as many modeling gigs in the future as SHE desires. Given all the complaints about fashion magazines using celebrities and not models on their covers, Kate has made a good move. ~ Anne
