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A fierce and innovative memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from the model and activist who helped organize the movement to bring equity to the fashion industry.. Now I measure the distance from model to president. You can see it in pictures. It's the distance between Trump's hand and the small of a teenage model's back. It's Marilyn Monroe's breasts to JFK's jaw as he leans in to speak in the only photo that exists of the two.. Scouted by a modeling agent when she was just sixteen years old, Cameron Russell first approached her job with some reservations: she was a serious student with her sights set on college - not the runway. But it was a job, and modeling seemed to offer young women like herself unprecedented access to wealth, fame, and influence.