Making a Model with Yolanda Hadid

This reality series offers an entertaining but honest glimpse into the work that goes into becoming a professional model. While much of the focus is on having the looks, posing effectively for cameras, and being marketable, Hadid underscores how important it is for the young women to be confident, strive for personal bests, and be themselves. Their ability to interact with others professionally and respectfully is also monitored. Hadid also stresses the important and positive role that their mothers need to play in their lives in order to protect them in the cutthroat industry.

Some of the challenges are reminiscent of those featured on shows like America's Next Top Model, and the teens' varied modeling experience creates some awkward moments. Hadid's constructive but blunt critiques of the teens' work and, at times, their mothers' behavior, also create some tense moments. Nonetheless, Making a Model with Yolanda Hadid offers some positive and constructive messages about what it takes to be a model, and how to navigate the business in a healthy way.