Former "charming" model drugged and raped: "My agent pressured me to sleep with the photographer. That's how I worked more"
Nicki Dubos, an American model who was at her peak in the 2000s reveals that she was drugged and raped by her photographer many times, with the encouragement of the personal agent.
"When I did not sleep with him - the work stopped coming"
Tanya Garcia
01/12/2021
Wednesday, 01 December 2021, 12:00 Updated: 12:08
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Cases that are revealed daily about sexual abuse of models under an entire industry of ‘give and take’ relationships continue to make headlines.
The Shai Avital affair with us is still vibrant and has not yet been properly opened, and the shocking stories even around the globe keep popping up.
Overseas, an exciting affair of
Nicki Dubos
(36), an American model who was at her peak in the 2000s, was revealed, where she was exposed to the glamorous world in the amount of covers she starred in, especially for men's magazine 'Maxim' and fashion magazine 'Glamor'.
Yesterday (Tuesday), Dubus decided to reveal her personal and traumatic story.
Nicki Dubus talks about the trauma
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In a video for the YouTube channel Real Women / Real Stories, she reveals that she was drugged and brutally raped at a business lunch by a fashion photographer, and testifies that her personal agent forced her to sleep with him to get more jobs in the field: "The industry ... the agent who ran me put pressure on me on several occasions to sleep with him. And when I did, I worked harder. When I did not, the work stopped coming."
One of the main allegations in the recent exposure is that the modeling agency exacerbated the eating disorders she had when they pressured her to lose weight and were not really able to see or worry about her mental and physical health.
The allegation is mainly directed at a former agent, who in addition to regular sexual exploitation also used to encourage her to have anorexia.
Following the rape under the influence of drugs by the photographer and the incessant comments about her weight, she reached a point where she felt "completely completely inhuman and traumatized."
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Dubos adds that she suffered from severe eating disorders and dysmorphism in the body (excessive preoccupation with inconspicuous external defects that lead to functional distress) and whoever was in charge of it, instead of helping only exacerbated the situation.
Precisely at a time when she was at the height of anorexia she was also at the height of the workload: "This is such a psychologically abusive industry. No one cared about my mental or physical health, anything. They just pressured me to be thinner. I weighed only 40 kg and yet everyone around me was simple Praise and make it something glamorous. "The compliments she received from professionals in the fashion industry at the time for being" the most beautiful girl they saw "dropped her to their liking and thus made her someone easy to control and abuse.
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These days the former model has retired from the field of fashion, she is on her way to a doctorate in clinical and active psychologist psychology with recovery services and rehabilitation from eating disorders.
Her resume already includes a book written by her "Washed Away: From Darkness to Light", where she tells in detail about 17 years of struggle with eating disorders, depression and sexual abuse, not only by her managers but also from a "closer" source - the late horror of a young age She was sexually abused chronically.
The case of Nicki Dubos is a case of someone who carries mental scars from the trauma and is a shocking story, but unfortunately is not the only one and there are thousands of other similar stories.
She is now a writer and social activist for the other but she also serves as an example to someone who should not be silent.
She shares her story with great courage and concludes: "It's time - it's time to unite and stop abusing women in all industries."
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