Lara Stone: I Got Fire Because Am Pregnant.
Just discovered that she was expecting her first child, so informed
the agents who had booked her for a big job about her condition in case they
thought that she being unprofessional – should she start to feel tired or
uncomfortable.
However, the news was not received well, and she arrived for the shoot to find out that someone else had been drafted in to replace her.
Although she was given no real reason for the last-minute swap, she was given the impression that it was due to her changing size.
“I was really upset at the time,” she told The Evening Standard.
“I hadn’t yet had my three-month scan and I felt really vulnerable about everything. I no longer had a job. That was it — I had to just stop everything that I knew; the way my life was.”
However, the news was not received well, and she arrived for the shoot to find out that someone else had been drafted in to replace her.
Although she was given no real reason for the last-minute swap, she was given the impression that it was due to her changing size.
“I was really upset at the time,” she told The Evening Standard.
“I hadn’t yet had my three-month scan and I felt really vulnerable about everything. I no longer had a job. That was it — I had to just stop everything that I knew; the way my life was.”
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