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El_Johns

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Sun Jan 5, 2014, 05:12 PM Jan 2014

From coding to the catwalk: This high fashion model has a secret double life



Like Superman’s Clark Kent and Spiderman’s Peter Parker, 29-year-old Lyndsey Scott has an alter ego. By day, she’s a high fashion model, walking the runway for the likes of Gucci, Prada, Calvin Klein, and Victoria’s Secret. By night, she dons square-framed Burberry glasses and transforms into probably the world’s most beautiful computer programmer...

In the post, she says:

It’s been a rather jarring experience having people see and treat me the way they suddenly do now. I was bullied and often friendless throughout puberty because people automatically judged me…The difference between then and now though is that back then, they wouldn’t give me the chance to show them that I was kinda cool, and now they readily give me a chance…and are then often disappointed that I’m kind of a nerd...

http://pando.com/2014/01/02/from-coding-to-the-catwalk-this-high-fashion-model-has-a-secret-double-life/
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From coding to the catwalk: This high fashion model has a secret double life (Original Post) El_Johns Jan 2014 OP
She wanted to act and posted pictures on models.com jakeXT Jan 2014 #1
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