You know what? People like Tyson Beckford remind me of people in the real world (yes, I said “real world”), always complaining about how some minorities are taking our jobs or how a certain minority is stealing black men, and so on and so forth.

Celebrities complaining about stuff is nothing new to me. Remember when Samuel L. Jackson was complaining about how rappers wanted to be actors? Now Tyson Beckford is whining about how designers are using celebrities as their muses and not models. Wah wah wah.

“You have to do a lot of tweaking and airbrushing to get the same from a celebrity that you would get from a model,” said Beckford, host of Bravo’s “Make Me a Supermodel,” tells the Associated Press, adding that celebs are taking jobs away from trained models.

 

“A lot of celebrities — I’m gonna tell you right now — they’re not 5’11″; they’re not a size 2 to fit into these designer dresses, but the designers want exposure so they’re willing to make the specific dress for that actor or actress to get them to look good on the cover,” he says.

“It’ll all come back around,” he says. “One day some designer will wake up and say, ‘You know what? I don’t want to use Gwyneth Paltrow. I want to use Adriana Lima, I want to use Gisele (Bundchen), I want to go back to the high fashion.’ I think slowly but surely you’ll see that start happening.”  (source)

It kills me when models have an opinion. Aren’t they paid to just walk the runway and model clothing? I’m not saying that all models are dumb (typical stereotype), but the minute they have an opinion, they are labeled controversial, or, well, dumb.

Tyson better be glad he can still get gigs, he’s pushing 40! He seems to have forgotten a thing called ageism. In this day and age, 38 would be considered over the hill for a model. I want to hear what he has to say when designers pass him up for a younger model.