LEANNE LEMIRE
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Winner of the 2006 David Ford Model Search.
I'll be honest … I'm still on a cloud when I think about the whole experience.   Winning came as such a surprise to me.   Back stage with 32 other girls, it was pretty hard not to critique myself to the max.   There were a lot of great physiques and pretty faces who put a lot of time and effort into forming the shape they were in.

Yeah … Job hunting can be a bitch.
I moved to the city when I was 19.   I didn't have a car at the time so I looked up about 20 driving companies in the city and mapped out a route by bus.   That didn't go very smoothly since I'd never learned to read a map.   I ended up hitching a couple rides with strangers … also snagged a free taxi ride once when I ended up on the wrong side of the city somehow.