Olivia Turlington

We had heard from a friend that Ford Models does monthly open casting calls for child models. When I first heard about this, I couldn't wait to check it out. This is one of many activities that my single friends without kids can't do. Sure, they can climb mountains, sleep in on weekends, go for 100 mile bike rides, and sleep on planes, but they don't have access to the people watching that would go on at a child model audition.

I am picturing a room full of kids with runny noses wearing makeup and earrings and their overbearing stage moms. I am picturing talent scouts who got into the business because they thought they'd get to spend their days with leggy 20 year olds but were instead assigned to the 'Junior scouting' division.

Then I checked out the website and found the catch. 'Bring pictures.'

That caused me to take an objective look at some of Olivia's baby pictures. In hindsight, my parental bias is pretty clear. In many pictures of the 'cutest baby ever' (e.g., the one below), she looks more like an angry Korean man than the next face of Pampers.



Well, modeling is probably not in Olivia's future. But we are taking her for an audition for the film version of the short story "The Curious Case of Young Sook Park"