Have you ever thought to yourself, wouldn't it be fun to get a job as a model?

Bethany Beale is the co-author of Girl Defined. At one time in her life, she thought modeling

sounded pretty fun. When I was younger, I really bought into a lot of culture's version of beauty

without even realizing it. And I remember one time, me my older sister, Kristen, we actually collected one of our younger

siblings, went on to the roof of our house and had one of our younger siblings snapped

pictures of us, and we were just posing like our best model poses.

And we, you know, had all the jewelry, all the makeup.

We were just working it.

And we thought we were so

amazing. And then we got down and we immediately uploaded our pictures to whatever social media

sites, you know, we even had back then. And we were just waiting for the likes and the comments

to come in. This is Bethany's sister, Kristen Clark. When I was young, I had a lady

approached me about being a model, so I was

probably like 10 or 11, 12 years old, and she came up and said, hey, you look like model material.

I think you're going to make a great model. Do you want to join our agency? And we actually

did dabble in the modeling scene just a little bit. And through that experience, had a firsthand view

into just how broken and how girls in that industry are lacking peace,

lacking fulfillment, lacking contentment, all of those things that we were kind of told,

oh, you'll have that confidence, you'll have that boldness if you're a model.

But behind the scenes, what we saw is that when you base your value and your worth on your beauty,

on your outward appearance, on what the culture says is true womanhood,

it really doesn't satisfy because it can't because it's not God's design. It's contrary to God's

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